The Lost Rhino

Natural History Museum, London

December 2022 - March 2023

In 2021 I was invited by the Natural History Museum to consultant on their new contemporary art programme. My brief was to research contemporary artists whose work could be exhibited in the Jerwood Gallery space and which connected to the NHM’s thematic concerns around extinction. I produced a list of recommendations, topped by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and her work The Substitute. The NHM went on to commission Daisy to create an installation with The Substitute, which became The Lost Rhino. The Lost Rhino was the first contemporary art exhibition held in the Natural History Museum’s new Jerwood Gallery programme, and it ran from December 2022 to March 2023.

A figure stands in front of a screen (around 3m high) which shows a computer generated image of a rhinoceros standing in a plain white room — Installation view of *The Substitute* in ‘The Lost Rhino’ at Natural History Museum, 2022. © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

A large display case with a taxidermied white rhino standing facing the right side of the case. — Credit: Taxidermy southern white rhino © The Trustees of The Natural History Museum, London, 2023. All Rights Reserved.

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