Reclaimed plastic and LED lights
Angela McMahon is a local artist who works with discarded materials to create beautiful and thought-provoking sculptures, installations and drawings. Her work casts a spotlight on the environmental impacts of our ‘throwaway’ consumer society. Love Me Don’t Leave Me explores the beauty of nature and our seductive/destructive relationship with plastic.
Angela’s work is inspired by a passion for the natural world and explores the resources and materials of human consumption and the traces and imprints they leave on the environment. Drawing on her background in geology and environmental protection her creative practice considers how our consumption is distanced from the natural resources used, the processes and materials of making and any thought for the impacts of disposal. The dichotomy of ‘stuff’ that is both useful and toxic, beautiful and dangerous. Material choices emerge from the physicality of everyday things in our throwaway society and research into their geological and anthropological lifecycles. She aspires to create work that is engaging and inspiring but also thought-provoking and educational.