Un-Forest, 2019-2020

Salvaged timber, steel, cotton, bitumen paint

Un-Forest is a mini forest of eleven dead trees enclosed by siren-yellow skirts. This life-and-death image is a stark reminder we need to speedily take action to address the causes of man-made climate change. The months-long summer bushfire disaster clearly demonstrated climate changes’ effects of long term drying and higher temperatures, for-warned by scientific reports. We see logging of unburnt forests threatening the viability of surviving native animals. The continued clearing of tropical forests, itself a major factor in climate change, and the associated pressure on animal species, is now being shown to increase the likelihood of animal to-human transmission of new diseases. Already we see life on earth being dramatically affected. Un-Forest makes visible the interconnections between the natural world and human action, connections necessary for our mutual survival.

Exhibited finalist:

Contour 556, Canberra 2020
North Sydney Art Prize, The Coal Loader Site Waverton 2019
Hidden Rookwood Cemetery 2019