NDI Gallery

Artist Sara Bergando uses items like scraps of felt, old mobile phone chargers and low power LEDs to create something so simple and yet so eloquent that the onlooker cannot remain but impressed. In fact her creations are the kinds which make one think of one and only one thing, “Why did I not think of it?”  But this is exactly how the artist exhibits her genius and the twists that she puts on these designs turns them into exclusive art forms which everyone vies for.

Artist Lin Evola Smidt creates her art work for one cause only; to promote world peace. Known for her 13 feet tall sculpture called the Renaissance Angel, the artist has created many other art forms using recycled weapons. She has the metal of these weapons melted to create her art forms. These sculptures have been put up in different places, as varied as New York and Jerusalem. The purpose has been the same and the mode of creation is also unchanged. Recycled weapons are used to promote world peace.

The Collage Portraits created by artist Derek Gores has attracted attention of masses because of the excellent craftsmanship and strikingly original art forms. The artist creates collages using recycled magazines, labels and all such material that has generally been discarded. Bits and pieces of such forms are put together and the result are posters which consist of faces and forms which are amazingly realistic. The artist in his urban art form hence automatically promotes recycling which can be seen at its pinnacle in his art.

The epic dinosaurs that came to life and into our lives with the iconic Jurassic Park movies have been hard to recreate since. The sheer terror that these prehistoric animals caused earlier has been recreated by artist Andrew Chase who is the owner of Chase Studio. He has been using recycled metallic materials to create various animals like elephants, bear, cheetah etc. However, the dinosaur design is so masterfully done that it depicts the animal in its original magnificence despite being metallic.

The Korobeinski Chair is an oblique and abstract art form which has been presented in the form of chair. The design retains class because the raw material used to make it comes from one of the finest music instruments ever created, Piano!! The chair uses wood and keys from grand pianos that have been discarded and probably are waiting to be incinerated. Benjamin Rollins Caldwell who is the brains behind BRC Designs has created this so called furniture which is more of an art form.

The stupendous designs from Atelier Hapax have come to become some of the finest art forms in the modern day. How exquisite can the chess board be? The design that has been created out of recycled materials while is colorful and totally beats the ostentatious form that a chessboard retains, yet it bears all the essence of the classic game. This recycled chessboard is more colorful and way cooler than its inspiration. The yellow, orange color design along with twisted rooks is insuperably cool.

Artist Kyle Bean of U.K. has been known to create immaculate art forms out of discarded organic and inorganic materials. One of his finest creations is called ‘What Came First’ after the famous riddle about hen and egg. The artist has recreated a hen from discarded egg shells and has it poised between broken shells in such a manner that the onlooker gets all the more mystified as the question, ‘What came first’? This is a beautiful creation that shows the genius of recycling.

Artist Lynn Ludemann creates functional structures out of discarded materials. She has created clocks and one of the most prominent among them is the clock that has been artistically created in the shape of tea pots using discarded metals. All the clock structures use the teapot shape as the basic structure and the clock designs are some of the most beautiful ones that you can come across. This is an inspiration of a tea lover for tea lovers to remind them of the need for recycling. 

Beer lovers can now impress any critics by using the Beer can art forms to express their love for beer and recycling. Every year, beer cans and bottles that are trashed contribute to environmental pollution when they remain untreated. A Texas based company that designs innovative home decor has come up with a remarkable idea of using discarded beer bottles to create fixtures that would enthrall beer lovers and non drinkers alike. Simply created fixtures are a sure shot reminder of how useful can recycling be.

Australian artist James Corbett has been adept at using discarded car parts to create marvelous art forms. These include sheep, man walking dogs and even motor cycles. The artist is known for his skills and his art forms have grown in popularity over the years. He is an advocate of recycling and his art forms reflect popular ideas like bikes, cars and even abstract art forms. The artist uses his skills to identify and use motor vehicle parts in a manner that is hard to conceive.

Jen Schultes is a graphic designer and a visual artist who has created some remarkable structures using recycled newspaper and other materials. The artist started with paper mache art and gradually experimented with trashed junk mail, egg cartons, fruit dividers and news paper images to create bird forms. This art work is reminiscent of the necessity of recycling and how creativity brings out some of the finest creations out of discarded materials. The birds created by the Artist are colorful and vibrant.

The Robosteel’s Motorcycle Man Sculpture is one of the greatest tributes recycling with the involvement of a graphics illustrator who helped create a detailed concept of the life size model of a mechanical man and a motor show. After artist Simon Roberts created the ‘blueprint’, the Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show promoted the concept and it took seven hundred and fifty hours to build the model using parts motorcycles which have been discarded. An immaculate design, this art form is a great artifact created by recycling.

Artist Enrique Conde has been creating models of amazing prototype vehicles using discarded computer parts. These models are realistic and represent some of the most fabulous bikes and cars. The artist calls it Kike Art and he emphasizes the fact that recycling is a mandatory requirement. It is well known that computer parts have been a major constituents in environmental pollution. This is the reason that his work has been accorded as one of the most remarkable reminders of the importance of recycling. 

An artist from Charlotte, North Carolina, David Edgar has created mini sculptures out of discarded plastic and these have evolved into a project called Plastiquarium. This project comprises of fish artistically made from plastic. The artist himself considers his work as enigma because he finds it pretty remarkable how so many seemingly un-connected objects help create such singular forms which are not only artistic but also a stark reminder of what all can one do with disposable objects. Plastiquarium is an influential art form depicting importance of recycling.

Artist Virginia Fleck has been collecting plastic bags from all over New York and uses them to create her art work. She cuts these bags into pieces and creates circular collages that are artistic, innovative and amazingly detailed. These circular collages are also called mandala which comprises of beautiful orbs made in different colors and patterns. One look at these collages and it is difficult to assess what they are made out of. What does capture an onlooker’s attention is the beauty of the art.

Designer Brian Carlisle has literally brought life to an old copper fireplace coal bin using old percolators, tea pots, used license plates, sugar canisters, discarded flour sifters etc. the designer turned the simple bin into a water can which of course took such a decorative look that it ended up as one of the most beautiful and unique bird houses. Quirky and whimsical, this design has been created to remind all the people out there to consider recycling as a mandatory requirement to preserve the environment.