"For ‘Attraction’ and other works in her series ‘Forlorn Objects Reunited’, Bridgette Ashton collected plastic debris from the beach near her home in Cornwall. The material ranges from broken beach toys and a surprising number of bits and pieces of dolls to ship’s jetsam-bits of crates, buoys, nylon ropes, container lids, and packaging...The status of these bags of rubbish of beach pollution was then enhanced and elevated by their being embellished and decorated with jewel coloured plastic toys and knickknacks. Thus the banal qualities of the raw materials were converted into ‘talisman-like objects’."
Extract from 'Transformations, the Art of Recycling' exhibition catalogue for Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Jeremy Coote, Chris Morton and Julia Nicholson.
