REcycled Art of Jen Grant

Jen Grant is an artist who works with recycled materials manly from found objects like clothes and jewelry. Grants work speaks on aspects of sustainability in that places the objects of everyday where along side of disregarded objects. Grant also makes a claim about social injustice in that she makes items of leisure out of unsustainable or disregarded objects, an example is her hammock made of old pearl and beads hung adjacent to a dumpster.

Artist Statement:

Artist Statement:

"SWING was created from discarded items of clothing collected from the back alleys and bin areas of tenements in Glasgow. The clothes were then laundered and dried, cut into strips, and woven together to fashion ropes, to which parts of chairs (also found on the streets) were attached to form swings. These were hung from the guardrails on the Botanic Gardens Bridge that crosses the river Kelvin and forms part of the busy Kelvin Walkway.

The clothes that were collected and used for this project were imbued with a personality and invoked very powerfully notions of the abject, each piece telling a story of sorts, albeit ambiguously, about its previous owners and their lives and experiences. The cutting and braiding together of these items seemed almost like weaving together small fragments of narratives from the lives of a myriad of unknown people, creating an object that at once juxtaposes these fragments while creating a new narrative of its own."

http://jen-grant.blogspot.com/