Caroline Rothwell's (@carolinerothwell) research-based practice investigates how ideologies and beliefs have shaped contemporary society. In 'Bird World', Rothwell creates an environment at odds with itself, a site in which the natural becomes unnatural. In this world, birds swoop around the suggestion of a tree that hangs suspended from the ceiling rather than rooted in the ground. Instead of the expected elemental substances of feather, wood and leaf, each bird and branch is finished in shimmering silver nickel. Experience the work on Level 2. Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Bird World', installation view, 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Ferrier Hodgson, 2022, photograph: Oliver Quirk