Fossils Talk: Historical Plastic
Adults
Please Note: This is an archived page for an event held in
2025
A discussion about individual items chosen from Janet de Wagt's 23,000 piece collection of plastic.
During the COVID lockdown, Dunedin artist Janet de Wagt began cataloguing her huge historical plastic collection. She has used miniature plastic figurines that she calls the Fossil Family (after the tin they are kept in), to explore and delve into the social and design history of individual items from the collection.