Tim Walker- V&N Exhibition
In preparation for this exhibition, photographer Tim Walker visited the V&A's object stores and conservation studios, meeting many of the museum's curators, conservators and technicians. He scoured the 145 public galleries, scaled the roof of the 12-acre South Kensington site, and explored the labyrinth of Victorian passages below ground level. Along the way, he encountered luminous stained-glass windows, vivid Indian miniature paintings, jewelled snuffboxes, erotic illustrations, golden shoes, and a 65-metre-long photograph of the Bayeux Tapestry, the largest photograph in the museum's collection. These and many other rare artefacts have inspired Walker's monumental new photographs, and feature in the exhibition designed by leading British creative, Shona Heath.
Walker's images are a visual feast, richly layered with props, clues, details and tricks of light all designed to capture a moment of pure fantasy that can never be recreated, yet thanks to Heath's elaborate exhibition design one almost feels as if one is there. Like catching lightning in a bottle.
