Please enjoy my conversation with Aurora Robson.
Aurora is a visual artist predominantly known for working with plastic waste. She was born in Toronto, grew up in Hawaii, and later lived in New York City, where she studied structural metal welding (she is a NYS Certified Structural Welder!) and worked in film, construction and entertainment. She studied art history and visual art at Columbia University.
Throughout her career, Aurora has developed many ways to sculpt with plastic debris, including fastening, weaving, sewing, ultrasonic welding, injection welding and 3-D printing. She shares these methods with others who want to reduce and transform plastic waste. Aurora has received several awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She also founded Project Vortex, a global collective of artists and designers working with plastic debris. Currently, Aurora lives in the Hudson Valley with her family, cats, garden, fruit trees, and a very expressive dog.
She says that her practice is a form of serious play. Aurora works in a variety of mediums, but have dedicated the majority of the past twenty years to working with post-consumer and post-industrial plastic aka plastic pollution. In order to maintain her creative rational optimism, play is essential, but her work is also a meditative exercise in subjugating negativity and a practice of radical acceptance.
https://www.instagram.com/aurorarobson/?hl=en
https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/katy-hessel-podcast
https://meatpacking-district.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-if-we-get-it-right/id1773809532
https://www.projectvortex.org/
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