Fossil – Eucalyptus Sideroxylon explores the accelerating loss of Australia’s native forests and the fragile relationship between humans and the environments we depend on.

The work brings together a pair of stylized bronze arms – skeletal, accentuated, and human – lifting a blown-glass relic formed directly from the bark of Eucalyptus sideroxylon. By blowing hot glass into moulds created from the tree’s charcoal-black, red-furrowed bark, the sculpture accurately preserves the intimate nuances of a species under threat. The glass branch-like form appears ghostly and luminescent, suspended between presence and disappearance.

The raised gesture of the bronze arms suggests reverence, offering, or desperation: a human attempt to hold up what may soon be lost. Fossil imagines a future in which mature trees exist only as impressions of memory, inviting reflection on extinction, deforestation, and the consequences of continued habitat destruction. It stands as both a warning and a tribute to the resilience of the natural world and those that cherish it.