The national organisation Clean Up Australia state that every year Australia consumes about 3.5 million tonnes of plastic and yet only about 13% of this plastic is recycled and that every year 130,000 tons of plastic waste ends up in our marine environments.

Recycled Monster Art is inspired by the plastic that artist Darren Horsfield finds lying around the streets in Newcastle, Maitland and the Central Coast. The exhibition will feature an installation of over 100 individual plastic monsters created by Darren and during the exhibition period Darren will set up his studio in The Project space at MRAG as artist in residence. As a series of art encounters, Darren will invite people to sit down and join him in his quest to reuse and recycle and make art with discarded plastic, between 10am and 1pm on the following Fridays’ 17 October, 24 October, 31 October and the 7th of November.