 I'm Alexa Macnaught Reynolds and I'm the Conservation Manager for Exhibitions and Lones. So this is a painting of a male jabaroo that's from about 1820 and it's painted approximately to the size of the bird, so this is actual size and it's been selected for our exhibition on animals. The designers have decided that it should be framed for the display, so it will hang on a wall and I've been doing that preparation. That has entailed finding how best to mount him in a way that he is comfortable, you know, not squashing him into a position that he doesn't want to be in. The paper sort of tells a bit of a story he was folded up and secured into a book so he has been stored folded for probably hundreds of years. He will never sit completely flat. I've spent many hours working with him and, you know, when he's stored in a book there's other vulnerabilities, so he's had some edge damage and some old repairs. He's got some really interesting tails because you can see on the left-hand side there's a big stain that appears somebody has tried to clean off and you can see some foxing as well. And actually because he's been folded we've also kind of got this ghost reflection of him so his beak is just here. It's kind of like an offsetting. As a conservator I want to preserve it as he is now, you know. The cockling and the folds and the foxing and the stains that have tried to be removed in the past they all tell us stories. It's his history and I don't want to disturb that. And especially with the cockling I can't reduce that without something very Interventive which ethically, you know, we don't want to do that. In conservation I'm supporting him as he is now because this is his story and that's what we want to show.