Residue Dolls has been created by artists Paul Evans, Patrick Amber and Jon Harrison in collaboration with Professor Tony Ryan and researchers from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
Three stop motion animated films, featuring puppetry co-created from everyday consumer packaging materials, will gently engage and inform about the chemistry and ‘life cycles’ of throwaway packaging, e.g. plastics, paper and cardboard.
The Modern Crisp Packets (starring environmentalist and national treasure ‘Chris Packet’), Molly the Milk Bottle, and Zaatari Mattresses highlight contrasts between wasteful approaches to materials in the UK and Northern England – and the innovative and ingenious approaches to reuse developed in the University of Sheffield Desert Garden Project, Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan.
Here materials from old mattresses to yoghurt pots have been reused and repurposed, creating viable hydroponic greenhouses.
Residue Dolls poses questions about what we can learn from different cultures and practical, engaged models of sustainable consumerism.
Opening times Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–5pm (closed Mondays) Sunday: 11am–4pm