Article: TAGGING ALONG, FRANKIE MAGAZINE ISSUE 98, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020

the breadtag project By Emma D  23 August 2019 Illustrator Shani Nottingham collects piles and piles of bread tags in the name of art (and environmentalism). Shani Nottingham is a NSW-based illustrator and rather obsessive collector of bread tags. In 2018, she made her hoarding habits public, beginning The Breadtag Project to showcase art made from the ubiquitous…

The humble breadtag is all around us, unrecognised and unnoticed. They are tiny bits of single-use plastic, that seem insignificant. But they add up, says artist Shani Nottingham, who is gathering them to turn them into art. “Basically the aim is to raise awareness of single use plastics, waste and mindless consumption of plastic,” the…

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The Bread Tag Project started when Shani Nottingham’s boys were hungry and devouring tonnes of bread a week and leaving the bread tags all over the kitchen. Shani’s creative mind naturally took over – and she decided this was going to be her point of difference as an artist. That was almost four years ago…