Exhibition Dates: September 2019Alchemical Aviary depicts the environmental uncer-tainties of particular species of birds, depicted within an Alchemical context of both purely symbolic and existing birds, metaphors for change and transforma-tion as well as harbingers of change and transmutation.Pursued by the inevitability of climatic change, the Dotterel retreats further up its bleak mountain peak, forced into a tourniquet of ecological misfortune, it has no choice but to finally launch itself from the mountain top one last time, into eternal oblivion.Global warming is regarded as a major threat to birds of montane habitats. The Dotterel is one of several birds on the UK’s endangered species list.Using Alchemical Birds as metaphor for ecol...