The works in the show, FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR, capture some of the flagship initiatives in the Nestlé ESAR (East and Southern Africa Region) sustainability programme, called RE. RE is centred around three principles: REthink, REduce and REpurpose. It is intertwined with Nestlé ESAR’s business strategy and value creation model, to help the business meet its commitment of reaching net zero by 2050.
The partnership with Dillon Marsh focused on three pilot projects:
o RE-Imagine Tomorrow in Tembisa, Gauteng
o Skimmelkrans in George, Western Cape
o Project Infrasalience in Hammanskraal, Gauteng.
Dillon’s work explores human relationships with the environment, and central in his visual vocabulary is an interrogation of landscapes. In this work, he creates a convergence point between the initiatives, their seemingly mundane day-to-day activities, the landscapes they’re on and the vast expanse of the sky above. He brings a certain clarity to the role of singular activities, highlighting their overall contribution to the transition from linear to circular. Using computer generated imagery, he invades the landscape with imagined physical representations of gases and liquids, to profile the positive impact of the interventions on the environment.
From Linear to Circular captures some of Nestlé ESAR’s sustainability journey, and reports back on the impact so far, of some flagship RE initiatives. It connects big audacious ideas about shifting society, with the simple circular principles that are a call to cation: REthink, REduce, REpurpose. In this work, is a snippet of what is possible for our continent as we ponder on the transition From Linear to Circular.
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About the artist
Dillon MarshI am an artist from Cape Town, South Africa, and I use photography to explore the tenuous relationship between humans and the world around us. I’ve held nine solo exhibition and taken part in numerous group shows both locally and abroad.
My early work consists of photographic series constructed as typologies. I use this technique to isolate and emphasise specific features of particular landscapes, usually elements that show how we as a species engage both deliberately and unintentionally with our environment. In my more recent work I have also introduced computer generated imagery into my photographs to reveal underlying features or dynamics that can’t be illustrated with photography alone.
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Skimmelkrans
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Skimmelkrans
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Dillon MarshSkimmelkrans 16, 2022True Fibre Giclee
100 x 133 cmLife is a cycle that goes round and round, taking its cue from the shape and motion of the planet. In the same way, the business at Nestlé turns on circles of production and consumption, as we shift away from linear to circular. Here, tankers take milk from the dairy farm to use in the making NESTLÉ NESPRAY, NESTLÉ EVERYDAY, NESTLÉ CARAMEL TREAT, NESTLÉ SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK. It’s all part of the move towards net zero, as we strive to do better for the planet, better for our business, and better for use all.
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RE-IMAGINE TOMORROW
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RE-Imagine Tomorrow
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Dillon MarshTembisa 09, 2022True Fibre Giclee
100 x 133 cmIf we learn to look at waste not as the last link in a broken chain of value, but as a resource waiting to be mined, refined, and commoditised, we can turn it into something that shimmers with hope and opportunity. That’s the vision that we value at the heart of RE-Imagine Tomorrow. To shift imagination into action calls for hard work, resilience, and partners — in government, business, and the public at large — who are unafraid to get their hands dirty.
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Dillon MarshTembisa 14, 2022True Fibre Giclee
59 x 74 cmThe real hard work is bringing in the trash. For South Africa’s informal waste-reclaimers, the toil of trawling through society’s leave-behinds is only the first step in an arduous process of collecting, sifting, sorting, transporting, and selling. For Nestlé ESAR’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project, waste-reclaimers are vital partners in a programme of sustainability that uplifts and empowers people, as much as it revitalises and rethinks the waste management industry.
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Project Infrasalience
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Infrasalience
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Dillon MarshInfrasalience 07, 2022True Fibre Giclee
100 x 133 cmFor all the talk of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that is reshaping our lives through the power of digital technology, Artificial Intelligence, and robotics, let’s not forget the real revolution that is shaping the future of the planet itself. It’s called the circular economy, and it turns on new ways of thinking about the goods and commodities we use every day. How can we best reuse, recycle, and repurpose them? How can we REduce the harm we’re doing to the environment? It all begins with REthinking. It all begins with us.
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NESTLÉ ESAR
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From Linear to Circular captures some of Nestlé ESAR’s sustainability journey, and reports back on the impact so far, of some flagship RE initiatives. It connects big audacious ideas about shifting society, with the simple circular principles that are a call to cation: REthink, REduce, REpurpose. In this work, is a snippet of what is possible for our continent as we ponder on the transition From Linear to Circular.
