Art Collection
Recovery TAS commissions great Tasmanian found object makers to create modern art
pieces as part of our sculpture-based sustainability education trail.
Recovery collaborates with John Williamson of Inkpot Studios who designs the interpretation
layers, signage, and style.
The trail encourages viewers to explore and understand relationships between waste,
economy, society, and environment.
A snapshot of the arts trail:
Let’s Talk Plastic
Commissioned 2013, maker Ben Beames.
Bens’s piece is a live demonstration of how plastic photo-degrades in the environment and
highlights the ever-increasing global economic cost of plastic pollution on fisheries. It amplifies the importance the scientific precautionary principle.
The Gordon Dam
Gift ed to Recovery by Hydro Tasmania & maker Jim Vaughan, re-purposed in 2024 by Rena
Dare & John Williamson.
The Dam, a metal & hydro meter piece featured in Art from Trash Exhibition 1996.
Purchased by Hydro Tasmania, decommissioned in 2022 and gifted to Recovery. Recovery
restored and re-purposed the Dam to show case all 17 United Nations sustainable
development goals and key principles of the circular economy. It is an interactive piece
enabling educative discussions and exchanges.
The Tipping Point
Commissioned 2016, made by Donna Ritchie.
Donna’s piece is a mosaic designed to be circumnavigated and read. Commissioned at the
time of the Paris climate change agreement TP explores Islands, equality, climate change
induced sea level rise, loss of glacier’s – the cryosphere, storm surges and decision-making
pathways.
Recovery TAS commissions great Tasmanian found object makers to create modern art
pieces as part of our sculpture-based sustainability education trail.
The Age of Glorious Nonsense,
A collaborative commission in 2018, to celebrate 25 years of trading. Dioramas made by
Brad Mashman, Tasmanian Durga Scott Fletcher, collage Margie Butler and Temple Patrick
Denell.
An enormous piece highlighting six dioramas exploring changing Australian values
referencing waste & sustainability attitudes over time, from Tasmanian Aboriginals caring for
country, the Great Depression and WWII rationing (waste was illegal), mass consumption &
production, design obsolescence & consumer exploitation.
Wanda & her flock of waste wise wallabies
Commissioned 2016, made by our in-houses artist Scott Fletcher.
Wanda & Wazza & Joey welcomes & celebrates all customers & visitors, whom upon entry
join her waste wise flock of re-use enthusiasts.