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PLASTIC PPE POLLUTION
(2021-2022)
This project highlights the current issue of the mass utilisation of single-use plastics during the Covid-19 pandemic. Plastic pandemic-related waste has significantly exacerbated the existing worldwide plastic pollution crisis. The aim of this project is to raise awareness of the new adverse effects that plastic PPE is having on wildlife and ultimately us. I used actual plastic PPE to visually showcase these issues, as well as dead animals, such as trout, hake, octopus, and pheasant as materials in my work. These have either been used as subjects within photographs or preserved in a sculpture.
Entrapment. Choking. Deadly. Consumption. Entanglement. Ocean Specimens.
Entrapment
2021
C-type print on birch block
29.7 x 42 cm
Nearly 26,000 tons of pandemic-related plastic is already in the oceans.
Choking
2022
C-type print on birch block
59.4 x 42 cm
As of March 2022, 70 animals have been sighted entangled, trapped or having ingested plastic PPE.
Deadly
2022
C-type print on birch block
21 x 29.7 cm
Millions of animals are killed by plastic each year.
Consumption
2021
Mixed Media
45.5 x 16 x 7.5 cm
Microplastics have now been discovered in human blood.
Entanglement
2022
Mixed Media
79.5 x 12.4 x 10 cm
Plastic PPE can take up to 450 years to decompose in the environment.
Ocean Specimens
2021
Mixed Media
52 x 25 x 40.2 cm
Data predicts that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
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