Innocence Art is an Empowering the Innocent (ETI) project that was set up by Dr Michael Naughton, a leading academic expert on false allegations of sexual offences, miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of innocent victims. He has considered false allegations of rape or child sexual abuse (CSA) in a number of academic books, peer-reviewed academic articles and other publications. Dr Naughton also has a wealth of experience in terms of practical engagements with alleged wrongful convictions in his roles as Founder and Director of Innocence Network UK (INUK) and of the University of Bristol Innocence Project. 
 
Building on this body of work and direct experiences with innocent victims false allegations, and wrongful convictions, Innocence Art was launched in September 2023.
 
Innocence Art is a dedicated approach to producing counter discourse through forms of innocence art to challenge the dominant discourses and existing criminal justice system arrangements in relation to false allegations, wrongful convictions and wrongful imprisonment. It invites those affected by false allegations, wrongful convictions or wrongful imprisonment, whether direct or secondary victims, and no matter where they might be in the world, to participate in the art of innocence by submitting forms of innocence art, whether images of paintings, drawings or photographs, poems, stories or other literary works, to feature on Empowering the Innocent (ETI) websites as deemed appropriate