PERTH ARTIST Fraser MacDonald is to use the unlikely setting of the Friarton Recycling Centre for a new project.

The fine art graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design plans to highlight the importance of work done by centre employees.

Fraser (23) was once a street sweeper and used his former job as inspiration for the “Nine Trades of Dundee” project that seeks to take art directly to the workplace and challenge preconceptions about who is an artist.

Each project is run by an artist who is either working in a job that helps fund their artwork, or who has done in the past.

Fraser’s idea is to create an art movement run as a mock trade union called “The Garbologists” from a shed he has built at the recycling centre, which will serve as his headquarters.

He will record employee stories and photograph and film their work to highlight the important job they do.

“I’ve worked at the centre on and off for four years and was working there last summer after I graduated when Nine Trades started up.

“I thought my experiences there would make for an interesting study that fitted with the theme of the project.

“I got on really well with the guys when I worked there, so hopefully they’ll get involved.

“It’s all about the different crews and workers and the different happenings that occur on the lorries and on the site. All contributions from workers are welcome, as they are the artists in this movement.”