2025 WASTE 2 ART COMPETITION NOW OPEN
Get creative and transform rubbish into art by designing a unique artwork for the annual Waste 2 Art community art competition. The 2025 Waste 2 Art theme is ‘The Year of Toys’ and entries are now open for next year’s competition.
Dubbo Regional Council Curator, Kent Buchanan said, the purpose of Waste 2 Art is to encourage everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle, and both challenge and change our attitudes about the things we throw away.
According to Clean Up Australia, 27 million toys are thrown out every year. This year’s theme highlights the fact that whilst fun and sometimes educational, toys can be hard to recycle and create a lot of waste in our landfill.
“For this year’s theme people can approach it in different ways for example, that could involve using old or broken toys to create an artwork or using other recycled materials to create a toy inspired artwork.”
“Last year we were blown away by the community interest and the number of entries across the different categories. It was also exciting to see some of our local competition winners progress to win at the regional level as well.”
Waste 2 Art is an innovative competition that allows schools, community groups and individuals to get involved and turn rubbish into art.
There are several categories for primary and secondary school students as well as community members and professional artists in the Open category. These include two dimensional, three dimensional and functional artworks. Students can also make their art at home and then select primary or secondary when entering. Entries close on 14 February 2025.
“We are also excited to be holding the Waste 2 Art Regional exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre later in 2025. This will showcase finalists from across the various local government areas who participate in Waste 2 Art,” said Mr Buchanan.
For more information and entry forms visit www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org/waste2art. Entries to the Waste 2 Art will be exhibited at WPCC from 8 March 2025 with the winners announced on 15 March 2025. Waste 2 Art workshops for schools will be held in November 2024.
Dubbo Regional Council is a proud NetWaste member and supports a community commitment to re-use and recycle through creative expression, Waste 2 Art is a NetWaste initiative, sponsored by SIMS Metal.
Last Edited: 01 Nov 2024