Carolyn Cardinet is an ARTivist that engages and experiment with society's waste and challenge hyper-consumerism. Through environmental art, she transforms found materials, emphasising the importance of sustainability within her art installation.

She became an accidental activist after witnessing coastal degradation in 2010 in Australia and decided to embark on numerous artist residencies globally to create awareness and engage communities to take action.

In 2019, she attended the Brisbane 'Climate Reality Leadership' program with AL Gore, expanding her knowledge to raise awareness about climate change. She furthered her training as a Sustainability Leader with the Port Phillip council in 2021 and the Yarra City Council in 2022.

In 2023, Her artworks were finalist in several prestigious awards, highlighting her sculptural talent with pieces made from single-use plastics including wearables as her past in the Parisian Fashion industry melted with her passion for discards.

In 2024, Carolyn presented her sculptural installations at the Sustainable Living, Birrarung River & Zero Waste festivals. Her sculptural form was a finalist at the Yering Sculpture Prize & Awards that same year.

In 2025, her wearables were seen on the runway at the Melbourne Fashion Festival and the Ocean Lovers Festival in Sydney. Naomi the eco-crusader was represented as a photographed portrait & a video for the Flinders Fringe Festival. She is a recipient of the WG Art & Fashion incubator artist residency 2024-2025 program and is taking part, with her open studio in the National Sustainable Festival and the Melbourne Design Week. Visual Impairment, a large sculptural ethereal form was a finalist in the Sorrento Art Prize.

2026, doesn’t seem to slow down with her new collaboration work OH Buoy presented at the Flinders Fringe Festival, Satellite Projects, the Glen Eira City Gallery and Euroa inaugural RAGE exhibition in several venues. Coming up is a collaboration with Gabrielle Leah New with a new work at the Broadway theatre in Rosebud, also common g up late June is a group exhibition at the Carlisle St artspace in St Kilda with her studio fellows and a solo show coming up in the next few months. Carolyn is looking forward to meet you at one of those spaces.

Carolyn Cardinet, a sustainability-focused installation artist, began her artistic journey as a Graphic Designer in Paris before working in the Haute Couture. Later living in Australia she received fine art degrees from VCA (Bachelor) and RMIT (Master). Always interested in learning she learned weaving from Donna Blackall a Yorta Yorta artist and from the basket makers of Victoria adding to her crochet skill making of her youth. With over 30 years of experience and 16 art residencies, her French heritage for fashion and passion for sustainability blend seamlessly in her forever experimental and evolving art practice.

Currently CC (as she often is been referenced as) continues her narrative of sustainability in art and fashion from a global perspective, constantly expanding the possibilities of waste through exploration and transforming everyday objects into witnesses of the forever-chemical pollution caused by mass-produced and our daily consumption of plastic from her studio in St Kilda.

Carolyn is looking forward to make contact with you online or meet you at one of the exhibition spaces where her work will be exhibited this year..