Feature: Live Magazine

Jacqui Kidman & Lisa Whiston This week we share an interview with Shani Nottingham, the founder of The Breadtag Project. Shani took a simple everyday item and decided to make art with it. But in a bid to discover more, she found opportunities to do better in education, awareness building, campaigning, activism and closing the…

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…

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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