Angela Palmer’s ‘Ghost Forest’ in Oxford

For more than two weeks, Angela Palmer’s installation Ghost Forest has found its third home after London’s Trafalgar Square and Copenhagen, where it coincided with the UN Climate Change Conference last year. It has now been hoisted onto the front lawn of Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, where it will remain for 12 months.

Palmer’s installation, which consists of 10 primary rainforest tree stumps shipped from Ghana, aims to highlight the alarming depletion of the world’s natural resources, and in particular the continued rate of deforestation. The choice of Ghana as a source for the tree stumps is no coincidence: situated some 3000 miles south from Trafalgar Square, it is the closest rainforest to Britain, yet one whose primary rainforest has been cut by 90% over the last 50 years. Ghana now exercises strict regulations in sustainable and responsible forestry and, crucially, is the first African country to enter the VPA (Voluntary Partnership Agreement) with the EU in an effort to outlaw illegal logging.

To find out more about the Ghost Forest Art Project, read here