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Felled tree given new life as an art exhibit

A sculptor inspired by nature has installed a 20ft horse chestnut tree indoors.

Anya Gallaccio and a team of more than a dozen assistants reconstructed the felled 80-yearold tree at Camden Arts Centre.

Gallaccio, 45, found it via tree surgeons, who had been hired to remove it from a park near Croydon. It was chopped into eight-foot pieces, which were bolted back together at the gallery "like a jigsaw". The former Turner Prize nominee said: "It gives a sense of the scale of the tree. Unless you climb it, you don't see a tree at that height."

The exhibition opens tomorrow.

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