Artist Profile
Merle Topsi Davis
Merle Topsi Davis is a textile artist who creates forms, sculptures and vessels using textile techniques of coiling, weaving, knotting, stitching, crochet etc. She uses recycled and found materials from human and industrial discards in her art practice to draw awareness to environmental issues, depletion of natural resources, over consumerism, waste and world pollution.
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Merle Topsi Davis – Tubular reef column
This sculpture represents a tubular column of marine reef. Although it looks colourful and happy, it is created using plastics found washed up on beaches, floating in the ocean, caught on reefs and entangled in marine life, mainly from the fishing industry debris, so has an underlying message. The polypropylene, and other plastics used in this sculpture, take hundreds of years to break down into microplastics which are ingested by our marine life and in the latest research… humans.
