The exhibition takes its title from Songs of Innocence by William Blake. For Blake, innocence was not naivety, but a primary state of being, an unselfconscious way of seeing the world before life experience changes our perception. It is a state of clarity, closer to how a child encounters life, open and attentive.
This body of work brings together new portraits created in collaboration with organisations working at the forefront of wildlife care and conservation. Each work emerges through these relationships and the environments in which the birds are encountered.
