Carolyn Cardinet, is an ARTivist or accidental activist. After witnessing coastal degradation in 2010 in Australia, she embarked on numerous artist residencies globally to engage communities through society's waste to challenge hyper-consumerism. With an environmental conscious, she transforms found materials, emphasising the importance of her practice. In 2019, she attended the Brisbane 'Climate Reality Leadership' program with AL Gore, expanding her knowledge to raise awareness about climate change. She furthered her training as a Sustainability Leader with the Port Phillip council in 2021 and the Yarra City Council in 2022.

In 2023, she was a finalist in several prestigious awards, highlighting her sculptural talent with pieces made from single-use plastics including wearables as her past in the Parisian Fashion industry melted with her passion for discards.

In 2024, Carolyns presented her sculptural installations at the Sustainable Living, Birrarung River & Zero Waste festivals. Her sculptural form was a finalist at the Yering Sculpture Prize & Awards that same year.

In 2025, her wearables were seen on the runway at the Melbourne Fashion Festival and the Ocean Lovers Festival in Sydney. Naomi the eco-crusader was represented as a portrait & in a video for the Flinders Fringe Festival. She is the recipient of the WG Art & Fashion incubator residency 2024-2025 and is taking part, with her open studio in the National Sustainable Festival and the Melbourne Design Week.

Carolyn large sculptural ethereal form is also a finalist in the latest, Sorrento Art Prize, in Australia which will take place in July 2025.

Carolyn Cardinet, a sustainability-focused installation artist, began her artistic journey as a Graphic Designer in Paris before working in the Haute Couture. Later living in Australia she received visual art degrees from VCA (Bachelor) and RMIT (Master). With over 30 years of experience and 16 art residencies, her French heritage for fashion and passion for sustainability blend seamlessly in her forever evolving art practice.

Currently, she continues her narrative of sustainability in art and fashion as a global perspectives & forever expanding the possibilities of exploring from her St Kilda studio.