London is renowned for its creativity, character and often-indisputable quirk. A hot bed of talent, one of the latest exhibitions hosted by the Victoria & Albert Museum is celebrating a creative persona that defines the spirit of Great Britain.
Inviting visitors into the fantastical imagination of inventive British photographer Tim Walker, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things stands as the largest display of Walker’s work yet. British-born photographer Walker first came to frontline in the nineties with his unique take on visual storytelling that blurred fantasy and reality to create images that are indulgent, surreal and intimate.
An interactive sensation, the show will encompass Walker’s photographs and the V&A objects that inspired them, short films, photographic props and sets, sketches, scrapbooks.
Celebrating a 25-year career of extraordinary image making, the exhibition will further incorporate 10 major new photography projects. Taking inspiration from the V&A’s own extensive and eclectic collection, Walker infuses notes of illuminated Medieval manuscripts and stained glass, a 65-metre long photograph of the Bayeaux Tapestry, the keepsakes of poet Edith Sitwell and a very iconic Alexander McQueen dress.
Fans will marvel at some of Walker’s ambitious fashion portraits of luminaries including Man Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood, Sir David Attenborough, David Hockney, Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Björk, Claire Foy, Solange Knowles and Saiorse Ronan.
Tim Walker comments, “To me, the V&A has always been a palace of dreams – it’s the most inspiring place in the world. The museum’s collection is so wide and eclectic, and I think that’s why it resonates with me so much.”
Glamorous, fabulous and intriguing, this is an exhibition to shine some light into the autumn days. Don’t miss it.
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things runs from 21 September 2019 to 8 March 2020 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7
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