The Hairy Wild Man From Botany Bay Chandelier is constructed from over 5000 individually hand cut, polished and placed shards of smoked glass, transforming this precious material into the bristly skin of the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay.

Long before the First Fleet of convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, a new mythical Australian creature arose from the frenzy of stories of the new continent, this creature was known as the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay. Described as a savage giant of 9 feet tall, with a broad face, deathly eyes and covered in long, but sparse wiry hair, the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay surely occupied the thoughts of new British arrivals as they surveyed the bush of Botany Bay, or tried to sleep on their first night in the new colony.