Wild

Manchester Museum’s latest exhibition, Wild, features work from two Venture Arts artists, Emelia Hewitt’s stunning wildlife photography and Andrew Johnstone’s characterful animal illustrations.

Wild explores our relationship with the natural world and looks at how people across the globe are creating, rebuilding and repairing connections with nature. What fuels our fear of dangers that lurk in the wild? Can ‘wildness’ flourish within a city’s concrete jungle? How do we care for things we can’t see?

Emelia Hewitt and Andrew Johnstone’s work was selected to feature in Wild by the students at Pinc College, based in Manchester Museum. The exhibition will challenge the way we think about nature, whisking you to wild places across the world to hear a diverse range of voices, from Aboriginal elders to researchers and community activists. Find out how they’re shaping their environments and looking to wild for a more positive future.

Featuring an immersive installation, audio, film and interactive elements, alongside natural history collections and artworks, the exhibition prompts you to notice the biodiversity and heritage of the featured environments while questioning our relationship with the natural world.

Manchester Museum Director, Esme Ward said:

“Wild is one of Europe’s first large-scale exhibitions to look at how people are working to make the world around them more ‘wild’. As the world’s first Carbon Literate museum, with a mission to build a more sustainable planet, we set out to share new stories and perspectives, from the local to the global, that could inspire us all to collaborate in creating a fairer future. It is this spirit that sits at the heart of Wild.”

Print and postcards of Andrew Johnstone’s illustrations are available to purchase in the Manchester Museum Shop.