On Wednesday, Warrnambool’s F Project Gallery are hosting an evening with a group of local artists making rubbish their business.

The creative quartet including Colleen Hughson, Rachel Peters, Kim Sargent-Wishart and Megan Nicholson will be using their art to bring awareness to the issue of pollution.

While the artists hope their works will be aesthetically appealing, it is the origins of each piece that Ms Hughson said defined the purpose of the evening.

“We are hoping to open up a further discussion about plastics on the beach,” she said. “This is just another way of having that conversation.”

The artists’ collections are all made of plastic.

They feature paintings, photographs, woven baskets and jewellery.

I think people can relate to these images. It’s making something beautiful out of something that is really bad.”

Ms Hughson said returning to recycled art had reminded her of her youth.

“In my twenties I collected glass off the beach and made earrings and necklaces and sold them at markets,” she said. “I’ve never really gone back there until now.”

Despite it’s beauty Ms Hughson said she never created permanent pieces, they were created for a purpose.

“These pieces are images made of plastics and then photographed,” she said.

“Nothing I actually make is permanent. The images are obviously, but it is more about the conversations they have sparked and at the moment they are creating discussion on Instagram and Facebook and other sites.” 

Acrylic artist Rachel Peters said art gave a unique approach to a global issue.

“In some ways this is horrible and not what we want to see on our beaches because they’re beautiful,” she said. “At the same time (it’s) raising awareness of a huge issue the whole globe’s facing, that we are a throw away society.”

‘Trash Talk’ will begin at 5.30pm on March 7 at F Project Gallery.