Bird Houses

These bird houses were commissioned by Arts Co, in collaboration with Philips de Pury & Co, to raise funds for the charity, Adventure Ecology.

The brief was to create a home for specific species of birds, bats or bees using waste material from the Philips de Pury auction house.

The outer casing for the houses was created by partially melting down plastic water bottle tops - collected after auctions held at Philips de Pury - to form rigid shell-like hemispheres that reference the cracked eggs of the chicks that will hopefully hatch inside. The silver house was made from discarded Pepsi bottle tops collected from a local recycling centre.

The inner lining is made from coir (coconut hair) and latex, sculpted into a sphere that offers a soft and sheltered environment for rearing chicks.

They were auctioned at Philips de Pury in London, in June 2008 . All proceeds from the sale of the houses went to the Adventure Ecology charity and the event helped to raise awareness of the issues surrounding endangered species of UK based birds, bats and bees.