Circularity through the power of art: Meet Emily Medbury
In collaboration with Polestar, Melbourne-based artist Emily Medbury has created and unveiled the Re:Purpose Collection. Comprising of three bespoke sculptures, the piece stands as a powerful testament to the principles of circular design, innovative thinking, and celebrates the sustainable design elements of the Polestar 3.
When looking at this collection of works, it’s difficult to believe that this is Medbury’s first foray into sculptural art. Though, it should come as no surprise. Founder and Creative Director of Anemoia Studio, Medbury is a leader in the realm of sustainable design. In unveiling her sculptural debut, she reminds us of the transformative potential and new worth of items often deemed insignificant and useless – a principle intrinsically linked with Polestar’s design ethos.
Each sculpture is made from commonly discarded materials and tells its own unique story. The first two sculptures act as a warning, and of a vision of a better way: a ghost fishing net salvaged from the ocean, discarded aluminium cans, a discarded satellite, all repurposed into sculptures both starkly beautiful and truly sustainable. The final piece is a reminder that the answers we need might already exist, told through the use of natural fibre flax to highlight the limitless possibilities of an infinite closed loop system.
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Anima
"Ghost nets have been described as a silent killer in our oceans. Anima was intended to capture the look of coral and represent the breath and spirit of our oceans, and how something floating at sea appears weightless and fixed at the same time. With Polestar 3’s carpets now being made largely from discarded fishing nets, the melting nets reveal the true nature of the material