Fossil - Eucalyptus camaldulensis is a sculptural meditation on extinction, memory, and our accelerating distance from the natural environments that once sustained us.

The work presents an elongated cast bronze arm, both human and ancestral – holding a glass-blown section of the Eucalypt aloft as if in offering, warning, or lament.

The glass branch is formed through direct contact with collected bark from Eucalyptus camaldulensis, an Australian native species whose deep herringbone design carry the intimate marks of age, fire, and ecological resilience. By blowing molten glass into moulds taken straight from the tree’s surface, the work captures its precise textures – its fissures, its memory, its ghost. The result is a luminous, spectral impression of a species under pressure, rendered in glass.

At the core of this ongoing body of work is the recognition that Australia’s native forests are under continuous threat. Through ongoing clear-felling and habitat loss, the futures of old growth forests – and the ecosystems dependent on them – are becoming increasingly precarious. In imagining a time when such trees may exist only as imprints, relics, or artefacts, the work speculates on what remains when living systems are pushed to the edge of disappearance.

The raised gesture of the bronze arm can be read as reverence, desperation, remembrance, or protest. It holds the branch as if it were a sacred object or the last surviving specimen, becoming a monument to what we may lose, and a call to protect what still remains.