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2. Elemental Sculpture Park Weeping willow tree Pierre Marcel (French, 1954)

3. Aureliano Aguiar Telefonbaum at Art Space Hotel Aureliano de Aguiar at Fundação Maquês de Pombal 2010

4. Clive Madison (British artist)

5. Clive Madison creates wire tree sculptures from a single, long strand of silver wire. He doesn’t solder or glue anything together.

6. Clive Madison (British artist)

7. Janet Morten, Linden in Lace 2003, hand-knit sculpture Janet Morton (born 1963) is a Canadian visual artist who is known for her knitted works.

8. Janet Morton (Canadian, 1963) Early Frost 2004, 13 locust trees in Metro Zoo courtyard covered in lace in autumn

9. Janet Morton (Canadian, 1963) Early Frost 2004

10. Janet Lynn Morton (Canadian, 1963) Early Frost 2004, 13 locust trees in Metro Zoo courtyard covered in lace in autumn

11. Dale Chihuly (American, 1941) Orange Glass Tree Kew Gardens, London

12. Dale Chihuly (American, 1941) Orange Glass Tree

13. Dale Chihuly's glass tree at Musée des Beaux Arts in Montréal Sol del Citròn, 2014, blown glass and steel.

14. Dale Chihuly (American, 1941) Opal and amber towers 2018 Royal Botanic gardens Kew London installed 2019

15. Mark Dion Library for the Birds of Massachusetts 2005 Detail Mark Dion (American, 1961) Blood Red Coral2013-Resin and assorted objects

16. Mike Tikkeros Sculpture in the shape of a weeping willow tree made from rusted metal Wollongong City Australia One and Other - Antony Gormley

17. Foster Talge ‘Silver Tree’ - Rival Metalworks Devin Mack Aluminum Tree

18. Foster Talge and his ‘Silver Tree’

19. Richard Stainthorp - Forest Moon

20. Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) Iron Root (2015) via Lisson Gallery

21. Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) Iron Root, 2015

22. Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) Tree, 2009 - 2010 (wood) Iron Root (2015) a cast iron sculpture of a tree root sprayed in purple car paint, Lisson Gallery

23. Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist The Iron Root by Ai Weiwei, is a cast iron sculpture of a tree root sprayed in purple car paint, closely connected to the trees currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London for Ai's retrospective and celebration of the artist becoming a Royal Academician

24. Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) Iron Tree, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

25. This ‘Iron Tree’ is the largest and most complex sculpture to date in the artist’s tree series, which he began in 2009. ‘Iron Tree’ expresses Ai Weiwei’s interest in fragments and the importance of the individual, without which the whole would not exist. Ai’s trees are constructed from the branches, roots and trunks of different trees. Although like a living tree in form, the sculptures are obviously pieced and joined together

26. Inspired by the wood sold by street vendors in Jingdezhen, southern China, ‘Iron Tree’ comprise of 97 tree elements cast in iron and interlocked using a classic – and here exaggerated – Chinese method of joining

27. Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) Iron Tree, 2016

28. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park “Hanging Trees” amplifies a dynamic and complex relationship between wood and stone that has long been central to Goldsworthy’s work: stone being traditionally viewed as permanent and trees symbolic of mortal life.

29. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

30. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

31. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Nel Legno Yorkshire Sculpture Park

32. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Nel Legno Yorkshire Sculpture Park 30-meter installation called Matrice di linfa, or the Matrix which is a dissected and hollowed pine trunk enclosing a bronze mold 2008

33. ‘The tree is a spectacular creation because each part of the tree is necessary to its life. It is the perfect sculpture” Giuseppe Penone A bronze tree holding a boulder in its branches, has made the Documenta 2012 Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) In bilico Yorkshire Sculpture Park

34. Ideas of Stone - Elm, 2008. Yorkshire Sculpture Park Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Light and Shade (2014) Yorkshire Sculpture Park

35. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Vene di pietra tra i rami Yorkshire Sculpture Park

36. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Gravity and Growth; New European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

37. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Gravity and Growth; New European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

38. Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947) Gravity and Growth (fragment) New European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

39. Graft is a sculpture by Roxy Paine (American, 1966) National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Washington D.C

40. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Inversion, 2008 Inversion, Rose Art Garden, Israel Museum, Israel

41. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Split, 2003 The cantilevered branches are made of more than 20 different diameters of steel pipes, weighing a surprising 5,000 pounds.

42. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Seattle - Split, 2003 - Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park

43. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Defunct, 2014 Saint Petersburg A dead or dying tree, a meditation on loss and life, describes the symbiosis between industry and earth, between production and natural selection

44. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Defunct, 2014 Saint Petersburg

45. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Impostor, 1999

46. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Conjoined 2007 Madison Square Park Conjoined, with its gleaming steel branches and improbable marriage of two species, embodies man’s complex relationship with both the  empirical and utopian Ferment, 2011

47. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Conjoined, 2007 Madison Square Park, New York City

48. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Symbiosis, 2011 Philadelphia (2014)

49. Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Symbiosis, 2011 Philadelphia (2014)

50. Roxy Paine’s work consistently blurs the lines between the natural and artificial. He is known for work that explores the collision of industry and nature, and his series of stainless steel “Dendroid” sculptures are exemplary manifestations of this practice. The “Dendroids,” a term combining “dendron” (Greek for “tree”) and -oid (a suffix meaning “form”), are monumental structures that convey a fusion of industrial and organic forms. They evoke arboreal structures, vascular systems, synaptic networks, and industrial pipelines, interpreting the natural world through a man-made lens. The structures represent search, growth, and the branching of systems that suggest dormant energy and potential, a theme Paine has explored in his work for the last 20 years Roxy Paine (American, 1966) Symbiosis, 2011 Philadelphia (2014)