I grew up near Centennial Park walking the family dog on trails through the Parklands Eucalypt and Paperbark swamplands; towards the bull rush lined ponds full of aquatic birds and floating tree lined islands. It created a lifetime fascination with birds and the fecundity of Australian wetlands. 

Collected from a commercial waste bin, my recycled Ibis 602 is constructed from white goods polystyrene, that I transformed into an artwork. Rescuing it from landfill, to save marine and wildlife the fate digesting its decomposed small pieces.

Ibises once lived in large populations in inland marshes with plentiful food stocks.1970’s drought forced them to migrate to city parks where they feed off our left-over waste foods, denigrated as filthy Bin Chickens, often in poor condition. The replanting of native water plants has transformed the Cup and Saucer Wetlands into a breeding ground for freshwater birds, where Ibises, magical birds in flight can emerge as sacred again.