In this new commission, Glasgow-based Irish artist Sgàire Wood draws on traditional heraldic imagery to examine notions of heritage, belonging, and the violence embedded in visual culture. With its origins in drag, fashion photography and multi-artform nightlife scenes, Wood’s practice is concerned with the layers of meaning behind everyday images, visual performances of identity, pop-cultural symbolism, authenticity, and artifice. In this new work, she positions urban wildlife and mythic heraldic creatures as representations of the precarity and oppression faced by minorities amidst the rise of fascism. Wood critically questions these systems of belief and our current political urgencies, all while leaving room for humour, hope and the possibilities of belonging and solidarity.