Susan Hawkins: The Remainder

Overview

We make things. We consume things. We repeat this pattern over and over again. Producing and devouring is one of humanity's basic cycles, whether we're cooking and eating food, pondering and implementing ideas, or creating and viewing art — and it sits at the centre of The Remainder.

With her latest exhibition of works, which graces Metro Arts' walls from May 10 to 27, Susan Hawkins wants to call attention to this process. Continuing to use reclaimed industrial and domestic objects, she aims to start a conversation. Given that dismantling and repurposing outmoded technology, making sure attendees begin to ponder how quickly things are made, used and discarded these days is well and truly on the agenda.

Hawkins hopes the train of thought will go further than that, however, with The Remainder also designed to highlight how our rapid consumption habits are having an environmental impact. It's a weighty topic, but one the confines of a gallery might just be able to make us all see a little clearer.