Guy Gibson

Environmental artist, Guyzo Gibson illuminates our cultured view of the forests, in a stunning display that ingeniously emphasises the purpose of preservation.

After ten years of protests against the waste of the logging industry fell on deaf ears, the environmental artist, Guyzo Gibson, decided to take another approach. He spent a further ten years resurrecting the giant root systems of red cedar and rosewood from the tropical rainforests of Australia, that had been discarded as "rubbish" from the logging industry. They are usually bulldozed and burnt or left to rot. From these, the artist has made art made from debris, painstakingly dug from the ground, resurrected, cherished, honoured and returned with vision to a new and potent value. Exposing the wonderful writhing beauty of nature’s reality, these are works that seduce your eyes and offer a message of great clarity.

Guyzo has created the The Nature of Wood Collection as a platform for education of the need for preservation and wishes to create the Nature of Wood Foundation Trust.

Torso

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Red Cedar, salvaged from logging waste Upper Buccrabendinni, Nambucca Valley "A body of wood"

Throneshine

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Nature of Wood Foundation Trust : @->->--.

Future prospects: A trust account would be set up for the acquisition of environmentally endangered land, accruing funds from a percentage of gallery commission, a small percentage of business profits, and donations from people wanting to ‘do their bit’ to preserve a piece of native rainforest. Eventually these trust parks will become wild life sanctuaries by law and branches of the national seed bank, helping keep alive the diversity of this great land.

Donating patrons will obtain a lifelong right to holiday with family and friends on the piece of land they have helped secure. These trust properties will not be available for sale or subdivision and only one eco-building with four cabins are to be built, creating a permanent protected and educational retreat, which will help people to walk gently on the earth.

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Salvaged from flood debris, Mount Warning, Uki NSW “Found, excavated and polished, it belies its suffrage as a once mud encrusted obstacle and now projects the power of a true Mandala”

Banquet

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Salvaged from logging waste, Taylors Arm. It took 600 years to grow and perhaps 15 minutes to fell.

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Up close & personal

Banquet

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The centrepiece of this collection, “Banquet”, is world class and sure to amaze and impress all. The base is designed to hold a leaf shaped glass table top while the upper piece is suspended above as a slowly rotating canopy, creating a spectacular shadow play upon the ceiling. It has the capacity to seat 32 people.