Tim Walker  

I recently visited the Tim Walker Exhibition at summer set house. His use of bold colour and play on  gothic fairytales is amazingly wonderful. Presenting a fantasy world captured through a child's eyes and drawing the view into another world that seems both unrealistic yet true. 

Tim Walkers “Gothic fairy tales” (Kirkova.D.(2012) create a vision through a child's eyes looking in to an adults world. His surrealist images use an extraordinary scale and colour, creating an extreme contrast between child hood and adult hood. Going beyond the desire of the object creating an eccentric place in time for the viewer to escape to. The exaggeration of scale and movement are used to capture a world far out of reach to reality and far out of reach to a child. 

He captures what may also be known as Jacques Lacan mirror stage theory. The moment in which a child begins to compare and realise the difference in its own reflection. The meaning of his world is quite naive as a child's mind is, capturing an aspect of humour through out his work.His images are not just about the dress, but creates a mood or fantasy in which the viewer can take away with them, pushing boundaries through presenting a fantasy world that falls out of the photos and into the room.
Walking round the exhibition you almost become drawn into another world, large scale props such as a  drooped doll bring the images into reality and carry the image across the page and into the room. Fascinated for hours it would be quite easy to loose track of time. 
Some of my favourite parts of the exhibition ..

Not only has Tim Walker inspired me to move forward with my Final collection, introducing a mood and gothic fairytale theme. The psychoanalysis aspect to his world has been a huge influenced on my dissertation.