What Lies Beneath

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Artist: Nicole de Mestre

Title: What Lies Beneath

Year: 2018-2023

Materials: Recycled fan guards and cable ties

Dimensions: variable

The microscopic remains of calcified skeletons of countless tiny single-celled algae, deposited on ancient seabeds millions of years ago, bear an uncanny resemblance to discarded fan guards seen in almost every roadside pickup pile.

The ubiquitous cooling fan could be construed as an ironic take on global warming. We use fans to maintain pleasant short-term temperatures in our immediate surroundings, while at the same time we are contributing to higher long-term global temperatures through depletion of our planet’s resources. 

Shamefully, all these mass-produced, inexpensive, throwaway fans are destined for landfill, adding to the ever-increasing layers that lie beneath us.


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​Nicole de Mestre is an environmental artist, who is motivated by producing something of beauty from materials that would otherwise have ended their days in a landfill site. She tries to reduce her impact on the planet and uses art to communicate her thoughts about society’s unsustainable consumer habits and living practices. She creates an eclectic range of artistic works, all linked through the use of recycled materials and found objects. Much of her process is obtaining materials and often their shapes, colour and texture determine the final work.

Nicole has another work on display at this year's BNSW - Scraping By
We wish to acknowledge and pay respect to the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation,
the traditional custodians of the land​ on which we meet and work.​​
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