RUBBISH ART
Walking along the shingle shore at Dungeness there are always bits of debris with greater longevity than washed up fish and seaweed. Out of reach of the waves are shaped bits of metal – springs, rods, discs – timbers and floats, fragments from the working life of the beach, which is a resting point for fishing boats. Derek Jarman collected these broken and abandoned fragments, and turned them into sculptures in his garden at Prospect Cottage.
What makes rubbish sculptural rather than looking like a messy heap? Along with being selective about what is used, how things are arranged in relation to each other shifts the view from rubbish to art. In Jarman’s garden, his sculptures assembled from seashore debris are set off by space between them and surrounding plants. Items with similar forms are clustered. Circular arrangements of upright objects look like a seashore echo of standing stone circles. Looking at enduring rubbish on watersides you might see potential for art.
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