'Plastic Effects' exhibition at the 2016 London Design Bienalle

Designer Brodie Neill is a University of Tasmania alumnus from the School of Design and Architecture, now based in London. 'Plastic Effects' highlights an ugly problem: the estimated five trillion plastic items that pollute the world's oceans. Fragmented particles of plastic –a material once considered utopian in itself – enter the food chain to devastate marine life of all kinds, and thousands of tonnes of debris are washed up on Australia's coastline every year. Neill's installation, developed in collaboration with Dr Jennifer Lavers from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Tasmania, highlights this problem by harvesting and recycling marine micro-plastic to produce a terrazzo-like composite, inlaid as a kaleidoscopic diagram, displayed in a Gyro table.