Plastic Fish

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PLASTIC FISH CREATIVE BEACH CLEAN TO INSPIRE! MADE BBY KIDS + HANNAH

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PLASTIC FISH

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TO INS

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CREATING WITH PLASTIC SEA TRASH TO INSPIRE! MADE BY KIDS + HANNAH TOFTS LET’S GO TO THE BEACH #PICKITUP

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SPIRE

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“From a city to a sea...

I found a global issue

on my doorstep.

It was shocking.

It’s easy to ignore what

you don’t see.

I started making

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to get your attention.”

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See what we made!

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Paradise Beach Snapper JoJo, 11 yrs

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Fresh Local Catch

caught by Hannah,

West Coast Scotland

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Made fun to inspire by Trash Heroes!

See extraordinary sea creatures created from plastic sea trash. Pictures speak louder than words? Be inspired by what we made. See funny and inventive examples made by kids, me and people like you. Join in a creative discovery for fun and to be aware. Use this to inspire children to look, create and question. Maybe they’ll never forget a crazy plastic fish. Or getting soaked cleaning the plastic trash they collected, or tipping bags of plastic on the floor, sorting favourite colours or making a plastic colour mess.

See how much plastic trash we collected! With fun treasure tasks and inspiration to energise your beach clean or recycling at home.

See how much plastic colour is washed up in our sea. Looking at the big and tiny stuff, different bottles and tops, shapes and textures wherever you are in the world. In cold and hot countries, on paradise beaches and everyday coastlines.

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There are no rules how to make a fish. Let your imagination go free, just look, get your eye in and give it a go. Each plastic find is unique and will inspire your own response.

Each creation you create is therefore unique, an individual artwork to be proud of and show. It’s inspiring watching what you see, how you see and what you make.

Something beautiful for something terrible? Something funny or ludicrous to get our attention, visual impact to make it hard to ignore? I’ll never forget a plastic fish.

Do you know the UK has roughly 12,500 km of coastline? How many kilometres of your coastline, beaches and reefs are trashed by plastic rubbish? How many rivers and canals?

Let’s make a visual noise to show communities and cities this matters.

Prepare, organise, look and collect enough plastic to make with: wash it, dry it, tip it on the floor... and follow Hannah!

DI SCOVER / C REAT E / M OT I VAT E / L OOK / COL L ECT / I NVEN T / I NSPI RE / SHOW

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The Blue Ocean: West Coast Australia

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The Blue Sea: West Coast Scotland

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you find What can beaches? on your up d e h was

SRI LANKA

SCOTLAND, UK

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#pickitup tiny sandworn plastic Australia

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#pickitup big scruffy plastic Scotland, UK

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Plastic Colour Sea, collected by Trash Heroes!

Argyll, Scotland.

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w! said wo we all

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“At first the school did beach cleans and put the rubbish in the bin. Then an artist called Hannah came into our school and she made it fun doing a beach clean because we used the rubbish that we found... but first we had to clean it.�

Ben, 8 yrs

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What’s washed up

on your beach?

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Long Nose Bucket 'n' Spade Fish

Kay, 6 yrs

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What’s your fish made of?

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It’s funny what you find...

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...funny what you see

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Underwater treasure?

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look ays I d e m So e ts ust n . for j ngs.. g th i n i r t and s

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Plastic Holly?!

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A computer???

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What’s the funniest thing you’ve found washed up?

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#pickitup

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Scruffy slimy seaweed finds in my sink, Scotland.

They need lots of washing.

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The Boys, 7-10 yrs

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Just look at all the bottles and packaging you buy, wherever you are in the world.

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pink!

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You never know what you’ll find to inspire...

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No scissors or glue! Creating a tropical water world or a stormy sea... using your plastic blues and a few toy props to help tell your story...

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My Sea Jessica, 8 yrs

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The Pacific Battle of The Giant Squid Connor, 10 yrs

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sea llage le o c r Floo simp es... on r u t a n cre ul fu playf er... pap white lue! no g

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Orange Whale,

King of The Ocean

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... n a e l is c h c a e be h t k hin You t

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Button fish!

Ice-cream Spoon-fish!

Toothbrush fish!

Washing powder scoop fish?

Odd-bits Algae Broken Ice-cream Spoon-eel?

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Fish ‘n chip fork jellyfish?

Toothpick Plankton!

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Scoop

Yelloweye

Limelips

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Ringtail

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What's in your sea?

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Angry Fish?

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#pickitup Orange Scotland

#pickitup Orange Australia

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The Last Barrier Reef Mixed media: water

container, milk, juice,

soft drink and water bottle

tops, fruit and vegetable

netting, fishing strings... all washed up on the west

coast of Scotland: cleaned,

dried, cut and glued, 2009.

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How much plastic do you buy and throwaway?

Namaste’s Plastics: x2 people x2 years collecting their household plastic waste!

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Namaste was horrified by all the black plastic

trays used for packaging meat and fish. She now

goes to a local butcher and fishmonger to buy

meat and fish wrapped in paper. Simon supports

a small local island dairy and buys milk in

glass bottles.

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What we did: tips+ideas

WASH AND DRY IT Ask for lots of help to wash and dry your

COLLECT A LOT OF PLASTIC!!

plastic finds. Plastic rubbish is mostly dirty

If you’re making with lots of people or a

and scruffy, especially in cold countries with

school, be prepared; you need a varied

seaweed. It’s wet work but it’s a fun surprise

collection of plastic trash to make with. It

to see the shiny treasure when it’s clean. It’s

takes time, so plan to collect a good month

good to be prepared.

ahead. Ask the whole school, family or your street to join in? Of course you can make with

COLLECT PLASTIC HOUSEHOLD TRASH

whatever you find on your own, on your beach

Collect your plastic packaging from home to

walk, picnic or swim with just an ice-cream

add to your making collection. See how many

spoon?

plastic colours and shapes you use everyday!

How much household plastic can a family, school or street collect in just a week or a

We clean up our coastline after the storms

month? Save broken plastic toys and lost bits

have finished, mostly in April in West

in cupboards too.

Scotland, but it will depend on the weather where you live. Hot holiday beaches may need

DISCOVER YOUR TREASURE

cleaning every day. Our village school raises

Make it fun to see what you collected 1 month

money for each rubbish bag we fill.

or more ago. Tip all your cleaned plastic on the floor! Choose colour teams for all the

FUN TREASURE TASKS

colours of a rainbow. With shoes off place

Make a Beach Clean a game. Look for the

each plastic colour on a white background,

tiniest thing, or only strings, bottle tops, one

leaving enough space between each find. It’s

colour, the most colours, the longest thing, the

energetic and enthusiastic teamwork. Wow!

oddest thing, only plastic bags, or big

It’s always amazing, and shocking to see how

cannisters, different bottle shapes, what’s

much plastic colour is washed up in our sea.

your favourite thing? Collect just textures.

How many of the same shape can you find?

MAKE IT EASY TO USE

What’s the funniest thing? I choose not to save

It’s useful to sort your washed and dried

the oily, sanitary or lighterfuel plastics, I put

plastic colours in to labelled boxes of colour

those in the recycling bins. We always wear

types, ready to make with. What’s your most

gloves and wellies in Scotland, even if it’s

collected colour? Blue? White? (Orange is my

sunny!

favourite colour but I don’t find much of it.)

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ON COLD + HOT BEACHES

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BE INSPIRED BY WHAT WE MADE!

useful to use a container as your ‘creative

There are no rules, or how to step-by-steps

collecting box’. Choose a good variety of bits

with this subject matter and abstract material.

and colours to make with on your

Each piece is unique, which means each

workspace; it saves lots of toing and froing.

creation is individual too. It took me a while to

Ask many adults to oversee safely and help

de-code it and let the material lead me. I

with tricky tasks. Many adult hands help

learned to look at what I tipped on the table, or

realise eager ideas too; there’s always a lot of

floor, to see which texture, shape or colour

enthusiasm and no shortage of imagination to

landed next to another and let that prompt an

make a lot of ideas.

idea. Then it’s simply creative play and imagination.

PLASTIC KIT Organise everything in boxes! Creating with this stuff can be chaotic because it’s

It does help to ‘get your eye in’ and explore this

spontaneous, highly inventive, resourceful

scruffy plastic stuff before you get the glue guns

and utterly individual. But if everything has a

out. Why not use your plastic collection to make

box to be returned to, you will have a system,

simple floor collages; great for the younger

a fun plastic kit to play with. Be prepared with

ages, with no scissors, glue... or shoes. Collage

tubs of additional buttons, toy bits, wires,

frees the imagination, it’s funny to see what you

strings, paperclips, clothes pegs, straws,

can invent. Simply create sea creatures from

plastic snippings, offcuts, driftwood, sticks

your plastic bits on large sheets of white paper

and odd bits. My friends laugh because I like

as a clean background to work on. The white

everything in boxes! It means I can have lots

enhances the textures and colours. It’s easy to

of everything and always find where it is. It

change a collage composition and try other

makes it so easy to pull out, tip out and create

pieces without glue. Use small toys as props to

with at any time!

prompt or build a story. Photograph the collage artworks before returning all the plastic trash

TEAMWORK + CREATIVE PLAY

pieces to your labelled boxes of colours.

Depending on age groups, abilities and class

Everyone loves sorting the colours.

size, 2 Plastic Sea projects work in a day.

Creating with plastic trash is energetic and

USEFUL TOOLS

lots of fun. It inspires great teamwork,

You’ll need cool melt and hot melt glue guns,

descriptive language, play and expression.

cutting mats, scissors, bradels, craft knives,

Once you get going you’ll find it’s hard to stop

hole punches, wire cutters and containers. It’s

making!

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A FUN WAY TO START

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ng, n collecti beach clea all‌ help! big and sm many hands

cannisters and looking for big worlds crates for mini

#pickitup!

looking for string things

fun with a team even in the rai n

looking for textures

rs looking for bright colou

wash and dry your plastic sea trash first!

energetic colour sorting teamwork

surprising to see what you collect...

tip it all on the floor!

laying it neatly all on white to get your eye in

Hannah always doc uments every plastic fin d... and our work!

see so much wow! amazing to in our sea colour collected

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ic rt all your plast it’s useful to so s xe bo into colour coded for any project ready to make with

be inspired by colours, or shapes, big or small, or a mixture of everything...

there are so many variations you can make!

r world… nnisters for an underwate use broken crates and ca window to see it glow! put it in front of a sunny

it’s easier to see what you made if you put it on white!

paint your driftwood before your tie or glue plastic to make a sea stick creature

collage floor pictures are fun and easy for all ages... no scissors or glue!

look plastic artworks ! special on white

what about an exhibition making to show to inspire and be aware?

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“All of the children had a lot of fun exploring, discovering and experimenting with found objects and collected everyday household items; discarded and ‘washed-up’ plastics, fabric and wood. Hannah showed us fantastic examples of her own work to help inspire and demonstrate possibilities. She challenged and motivated everyone and gave all of the children more confidence in their creative abilities and a better awareness of how they can help to sustain, be responsible and look after their environment. We have gained lifelong awareness of how we can reuse and recycle our ‘rubbish’. As a teacher, this project gave me great inspiration and useful ideas, which I have put into practice. The ‘All Washed Up’ project is one we will never forget!”

Namasté Bevan, Teacher, Achahoish Primary School, now Head Teacher Kilmartin Primary School “In the amazing workshop sessions the children were inspired to use their creative talents to turn the plastic that they gathered from the beach into unique and interesting sculptures. They had great fun arranging their creations and the whole experience has given our beach cleans a new sense of purpose. It has motivated the children to look more closely at their environment, to appreciate that recycling can be a fun and interactive activity and to realise that every piece of junk that they remove from the shore helps to keep Argyll beautiful.”

Berni McMillan, Head Teacher Craignish Primary School and Kilninver Primary School

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About Hannah "I've been collecting and making with plastic trash for nearly 10 years!

Inspired after moving from a city to a sea, Amsterdam to West Coast Scotland, where I discovered plastic trash washed up every day.

I collect all sorts of things. I'm a Bower Bird. My studio's full! I make with the thrown-away, lost and found, the ordinary and the odd.

I document the process and photograph every find, wherever I travel.

I'm a passionate creative! I wanted to make a serious issue fun to inspire. I developed Plastic Sea, a Creative Beach Clean project to tour and map our coastlines. Aiming to engage schools and future generations; for children to show communities and cities this matters.

Creative education for a zero tolerance legacy for plastic in our waters?

I self-published a 660 page book Plastic Sea to show the story to corporates. Developed Letsgotothebeach, a beach-wear concept, 85

after a trip to Australia, and successfully crowd-funded a first production of Beach Clean Sarongs, to raise awareness and funds for marine pollution orgs; to Say no to a Plastic Sea! I love hot beaches, programmes about fish and swimming in clean oceans."

Plastic Soup Island, The Pacific Ocean

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What would you do for (ZER)O plastic in our water?

- keep your beaches and coastline clean where you live, and on holiday - join in a beach clean, try it, it’s fun! (always wear gloves to pick up plastic trash) - go on a nurdle hunt!

- help engage the adults to get motivated, they might not be as aware as you - separate your rubbish at home, school, work and play, in recycling bins or the depot - enourage everyone you know to do the same, adults can be lazy - see how other countries care for their rubbish, can your country do more?

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- demand no single use plastic packaging!

- challenge supermarkets for plastic free shopping?

er you ev urdle?

Have a n found

- help others to change their daily plastic buying behaviour - post without plastic?

- be inventive, design alternative packaging to plastics?

- stop buying water in plastic bottles, reuse a bottle or use a metal bottle.

- campaign to bring back water fountains in our public places!

- use paper straws, ask your local food stalls and cafes to do the same - campaign for a plastic bottle deposit scheme - explore how and where plastic is disposed with, is this the best we can do?

- engage and be passionate; join in to make a difference - campaign for a zero plastic symbol: (ZER)O plastic in our packaging?

- recycle all your plastic once you’ve finished creating x

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Useful plastic pollution information: www.fauna-flora.org (UK) www.plasticsoupfoundation.com (The Netherlands) www.mcsuk.org (Marine Conservation Society UK) www.fidra.org.uk (The Great Nurdle Hunt started here, East Scotland) www.noordzee.nl (Boskalis Beach Cleanup, The Netherlands) www.seashepherd.org.au (Australia, The World) www.take3.org (Australia) www.sas.org.uk (Surfers Against Sewage, Cornwall UK) www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org (USA)

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Oily Cod,

Commonly found in The Atlantic,

Hannah, 2009

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“We have to sort out big problems you made...�

A 7 year old sighed on a local beach clean... overwhelmed by piles of plastic trash washed up on our local coastline.

She made me think... how to make it more fun.

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(If I knew then what I know now...

I would have been too overwhelmed to start...)

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PLASTIC BOTTLES HAVE BEEN FILMED 7,000 METRES DEEP AND DEEPER ON THE SEA BED IN OUR BLUE PLANET... WHICH WILL NEVER EVER DISAPPEAR. THAT MAKES YOU THINK?

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Thank you Trash Heroes!

My biggest thank you to all the wonderful children I worked with in my Plastic Sea summer workshops in our Village Hall. Thank you Craignish Primary School, Kilninver Primary School and Achahoish Primary School, all in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. Thank you enthusiastic creators for having so much fun working together. I wish we’d filmed the busy activity, the enormous mess, the rummaging in my toy collection boxes, the chatter in your mini worlds, the surprise as you made something extraordinary out of something odd and scruffy, the pride, the play, the fun, our joy and the impressive clearing up. It was bombastic, heart warming and inspiring! Thank you Craignish children, age 5-11 years: Kizzy, Thom, Bea, Liberty, Abi, Ellie G, Tara, Faidh-Mara, Benjamin, Jock, Eoghan, Ruthie, Rosie P, Rosie D, Ross, Fergus, Jamie D, Beth, Jamie, Kay, Reiley, Harry, Iris, Ella, Charlie, Zoe, Lily, Suzannah, Hamish, Alan, Josh, Sophie, Donald, Ciaran, Liam, Charlie, Johnnie, Harry, Jacob, Peter, Grace, Hannah, Madeleine, Abigail, Toby and Sienna. Thank you Berni McMillan, Head Teacher of Craignish and Kilninver Primary Schools for involving your children and staff with such positive can-do enthusiasm on a Creative

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Beach Clean Adventure, 2015. What energy and belief in the individual! Thank you inspiring creators: Lois, Isaac, Marshall, Evie, Bella, Sonny, Emma, Milly, Josh, Lucy, Archie, Francesca, Ross, Hamish, Milo, Hugh, Becca, Calym, Jamie, Arabella, Joshua, William, Gregor, Angus, Grace, Amy, Hugo, Koa, Ellie, Stephen, Sarah, Imogen. Thank you inventive creatives at Achahoish Primary School: Ruby, Nadia, Connor, Michael, Nithin, Angus, Jessica, Arasi, Evie, Kayla, Sonny and Ben. Thank you for being a dynamic small school to run such a big creative project over 3 months across all disciplines. Small is definitely big! Thank you to Louise Paterson now Head Teacher of Tarbert Primary School, for being game, flexible and supportive of the creative. Above all thank you NamastĂŠ Bevan, now Head Teacher of Kilmartin Primary School for championing creative expression. For seeing the potential of the Plastic Sea project in 2012. Thank you for being an energetic teacher and supreme organiser, for creating such a fabulous professional exhibition and auction of the artworks. Thank you to all the staff, parents and grandparents for collecting plastic trash, cleaning it and helping realise our ideas. What a legacy! x

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I love the ocean, seen and collected Bali, Indonesia, 1993

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Follow the PLASTIC SEA creative beach clean series: plastic fish, insects, birds, faces, aquariums + mini worlds...

PLASTIC FISH: seen, collected, created, devised, taught, written, photographed by Hannah Tofts MA RCA artist/designer/accidental eco participator dreaming of hot beaches and clear water blues www.hannahtofts.com LETS GO TO THE BEACH: www.letsgotothebeach.org Post your Plastic Fish pix online, with a first name + age: www.letsgotothebeach.org/plasticfish Design: Jan Battem, Creative Direction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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www.battem.com Serious Photography: Shannon Tofts, Edinburgh, Scotland www.shannontofts.com Print: Ipskamp Printing, The Netherlands www.ipskampprinting.nl Dedicated to my mother, Faith Shannon, bookbinder, artist, botanical illustrator, teacher, collector of everything, MA RCA 1938-2018. You've been with me all the way over these 10 plastic years, collecting all your kitchen plastic, beach cleaning, washing, drying it on your aga, squashing it under your presses, always encouraging when I wanted to give up. Laughing at the chaos and creations made in my studio below yours. Thank you for giving me every possibility in my life, every space, quality pencil, paper, book, ingredient and plastic bottle top to create with. For giving me the freedom to play and your utter belief of "yes, of course you can". xx Copyright Š 2018, Hannah Tofts. All rights reserved First publication 2018: JBCD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ISBN: 9789402810691 Thank you Jan, Shannon, Nicole, Murray, Rikki, and Dad for all your support and belief.

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“At first the school did beach cleans and put the rubbish in the bin. Then an artist called Hannah came into our school and she made it fun doing a beach clean because we used the rubbish that we found... but first we had to clean it.”

Ben, 8 yrs “I learned that you can make anything with your imagination... I hope Hannah carries on making her fantastic masterpieces and inspires more people to do the same. Also I will tell other people... she has done a wonderful thing and I will always remember the time that I spent with her.” Evie, 10 yrs “I will always think differently about throwing rubbish away and what I could do with it instead.” Angus, 11 yrs “I didn’t know that you can make amazing art with the rubbish you find on a beach, it was great fun!” Arasi, 9 yrs “. . . the bit I liked best was making the little underwater scenes and also when we made fish... it made me see differently all the kinds of things you could make out of things that you can find on the beach. The only bit that wasn't so fun was cleaning all the rubbish! I got used to it though!” Ruby, 11 yrs

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