Woven from reclaimed ski lift cable, Bowerbird Nest is both wild and precise — a sculpture that seems caught mid-whirl, as if lifted by the alpine winds it was born from.

Artist Patti Keenan repurposed industrial material into something organic, gestural, and strangely tender. The piece takes its name from the bowerbird, a creature known for its elaborate nests and obsessive eye for detail. Like its namesake, the sculpture gathers strength through accumulation — strands looped and layered into a form that is part shelter, part offering.

Winner of the Snowy Monaro Environment Award at Lake Light Sculpture, Bowerbird Nest speaks to the beauty of reuse, the poetry of discarded things, and the tension between human impact and the natural world.

It also makes an excellent wind detector, bird perch, and temporary portal to a better-designed dimension.