Project Name: Other People's Rubbish

Project managers/designers: Health Nash & Team. Richard Mandongwe.

Web link: http://www.heathnash.com/others.php

Description: "Health Nash studied fine art at the University of Cape Town, majoring in sculpture in 1999."

"I thus developed a very playful and experimental way of dealing with simple materials and basically found the work process that I still employ today – the process of trial and error."

"By working with Richard, adding his wire skills and an amazing new material (bottle-plastic) to my structural knowledge and play, giving rise to a range of re-purposed post-consumer plastic waste products."

"I called the range ‘other people’s rubbish’. It was intended as a possible form of future upliftment for a country in desperate need of employment opportunities, and as a way to promote the idea of recycling to a very unaware South African public. There was also much discussion around the idea of a national identity through design at this time, and the possibility of inventing my own craft/design mythology for our new democracy was a real possibility, and it appealed to me. I realised that by using the right materials and knowledge - wire and plastic - combined with typically South African skills and contemporary design, a new aesthetic could be created which really spoke to the then current South African situation. This was in 2004, and later the same year"

Medium standing bottle base/bucketshade Description: Found and recycled plastic containers as base, with bucket as lampshade Colours available: White, multicolour Sizes available: 300mm w x 1200mm h

Added by: Jack Griffin.