More than 240 works are on display in the Waste as Art exhibition at Newcastle Community Art Centre until July 25.

Oliver Hensel-Brown, of Adamstown, was named winner yesterday for his sculpture, Boccioni passing Woy Woy.

The futurist work was made from cardboard boxes the artist found in dumpsters.

Mr Hensel-Brown, who is studying at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, said the work was based on a futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni and Woy Woy because the town was the half-way point on the Sydney to Newcastle train, which he catches regularly.

"The original Boccioni is in shiny bronze and I wanted to humble it with cardboard," Mr Hensel-Brown said.

Alison Branley