Sarah Turner is an Eco artist and designer based in Nottingham and focuses on turning recycled materials into wonderful lighting and decorative pieces. It all started when Turner wrote a dissertation on recycled materials at university and while sat in a coffee shop saw how many plastic bottles were being thrown away. This sparked an idea and created a challenge for Turner along the lines of, how can I take something that is rubbish and turn it into something it isn't. Turner now specialises in using recycled plastic bottles to create lighting and decorative pieces she does this by first cleaning them, then sandblasting them, and last cutting and sculpting them.
Her works have been shown all around the world including exhibitions in Milan, Paris, LA and London. In 2012 she got the chance to really show of her work at one the UK's biggest events, the 2012 Olympics. Her role was to create a number pieces for Coca-Cola for their Hospitality Centre at the Olympic Park.
The pieces included a number of lighting features which featured 30 plastic Coka-Cola stuck to a circular board with light in between each circle. Turner used the circles as she thought it fitting that they looked like the Olympic rings. A few other pieces she used were circular can cut outs which were individually hung to created silhouettes of gymnasts and divers.
Sarah Turners works really appeal to me, I have always liked using recycled materials and the challenges it gives you. Though I like applying the materials to clothing more than lighting and sculptures. I think recycling within art is something that we are going to see much more of and it's artists like Turner that show people just because something is recycled doesn't mean it has rubbish.
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