Life Support is an innovative artwork that serves as functional habitat for a wide variety of species including invertebrates, bats, birds and reptiles.
Made from a salvaged 400 year old remnant yellow box tree, Life Support is unique as it doubles as an eye-catching artwork, which visitors to the reserve can experience up close.
The project was a collaboration between the Parks and Conservation Service, The ANU’s School of Arts and Design and Fenner School of Environment and Society, as well as with United States artist Professor Joyce Hwang who designed the sculpture. The sculpture seeks to provide much needed ‘real estate’ for wildlife, in the form of nesting hollows, perches and peeling bark, but also push the boundary from a structural engineering and architectural perspective. The project demonstrates what can be achieved when ecological problems are tackled in a cross-disciplinary manner.
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