A Duck for Mr. Darwin presents individual artworks which mix fact and fiction, experimentation and observation, methods of display and several artists' own research of and journeys to the Galapagos Islands. Located within Level 3 gallery, the exhibition presents work by nine contemporary artists including a number of new commissions. The exhibition title references the story of an exchange of letters between the young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin. In 1857 Wallace was to send Darwin a specimen - a domestic duck from the island of Lombok. Just a year later he would send a short twenty page essay on species variation. This correspondence proved to be an important catalyst precipitating the publishing of Darwin's monumental theory - the Origin of Species in 1859.