Aardman at the Young V&A - must see
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| Grommit’s garden. Galleon in background |
Mrs Drew & I have just visited a truly superb exhibition at Young V&A* in Bethnal Green.
It’s brilliantly well done and is chock full of original Aardman stuff (Morph, Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep etc) – meaning, of course, that it’s in full collaboration with the famous animation studio itself. A marketing ploy? Who cares.
It works along so many dimensions. Where do the ideas come from for the models and characters? We learn a lot about the creative, artistic processes involved, every inch and frame the equal of Disney. How do they make the models? Yep, we learn that, too. You wanna see the models themselves? All there, from the tiny rivets on the space ship (they use chickpeas) to the immense galleon from The Pirates! How do they make it all move? Plenty of that, too.
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And it’s a lot of fun! Loads of kids – as one might expect – really enjoying themselves. Kids of all ages.
Getting a bit more po-faced about it all, in the context of Hockney I recently rehearsed my views on what constitutes Art is threefold: complete mastery of the craft au fond; boundless, compulsive creative output; and a strong eye / ear for abstraction. It’s all here at Aardman. Nick Park is a true artist. Go and see his stuff.
On till November and tickets go quickly during the hols.
ND
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* This V&A outpost dates from 1872 and has had several incarnations: it once housed the V&A’s Rodin collection; in 1974 it became the V&A Museum of Childhood. Once the heart of Kray territory and very readily accessible from central London, Bethnal Green after the Krays became a magnet for South Asian immigration, notably from Bangladesh; and more recently, it’s been gentrifying – just one tube stop from the heart of the City, with lots of fine brick buildings from the Georgian era onwards, ripe for conversion to smart, up-market housing. The wonder is, it took so long to become trendy.
The museum itself went through a typically annoying woke phase some years ago; but in this case, as in many others, peak woke is mercifully behind us.
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2026/08/aardman-at-young-v-must-see.html
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