The Birds Nest was constructed by a group of participants as part of the Studio in the Woods annual summer design and make workshop. The intervention - part sculpture, part practicable seating enclosure, was fabricated under the tutorage of Shin Egashira and Zoë Berman.
The intervention was created out of leftover waste oak, felled from woodland and left unused - to create a form that celebrated timber that is otherwise deemed ‘not valuable’. Working with the unwanted branches brought a ‘nose to tail’ attitude to the work, weaving the scraps - from medium sized trunks to thin twigs - into a structure that made use of this waste wood.
The structure was built on Ruskin Land in the oak woodland of the Wyre Forest.
The Birds Nest was visited by BBC’s CountryFile and featured on the Worcestershire episode, that explored whether enough is being done to save the great British Oak tree from disease and parasitic pests.
BBC CountryFile - filming at the Wyre Forest