About This Project

Falling Together—a pair of silhouettes Corten steel euchalptus branches—brings the natural world into the heart of Banco Group’s latest residential building at East Brunswick Village (EBV), Elm Grove.

Positioned at the building’s entrance, the forms of the sculpture are drawn from fallen eucalyptus leaves Jenna observes on walks at the nearby Merri Creek and Phillips Reserve where gum trees shape the landscape. By introducing the language of the bush into the new urban environment, Jenna honours the ecological history of the site while offering residents a daily point of connection to nature, reframing our relationship with the eucalyptus to make it central, powerful, and ever-present.

Fabricated in Corten steel, these sculptures will weather naturally, forming a stable rust patina that protects the metal from further corrosion; it will continue to evolve in response to the environment, echoing natural processes of aging and change.

“For those who live and move through East Brunswick Village, I hope this work provides a quiet reminder of the environment that surrounds us. The falling leaves invite reflection, grounding us in cycles of renewal, change, and belonging.” — Jenna Mayilema Lee

ADA Consulting have been the public art consultants for EBV since 2018, overseeing the integration of more than 75 artists across the Village to date.

Jenna is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri woman with Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Her practice interrogates language, materiality, and inherited narratives through immersive installation, works on paper, sculpture, and multimedia. Lee examines the spaces between words and the subtleties of language, drawing overlooked nuances into materially driven responses to colonial archives and systems of knowledge.