Exhibition and outdoor trail will open from June 2021 at Walthamstow Wetlands.
Walthamstow Wetlands and the William Morris Gallery have revealed a unique collaboration on the launch of a year-long celebration of Moomin creator, Tove Jansson.
The collaboration will begin with an indoor exhibition and outdoor trail, opening to the public in June at Walthamstow Wetlands.
The Woman Who Fell In Love With An Island will draw on the parallels between the island of Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago, where Tove Jansson spent her summers immersed in nature, and the scenery at Walthamstow Wetlands which is Europe’s largest urban wetlands and has eight islands of its own.
The exhibition will show how Tove took her inspiration from nature, featuring facsimiles of photographs taken of her on Klovhaurn, quotes and her own work including nature studies and descriptions of birds.
The family trail, meanwhile, will feature a unique downloadable audio piece from composer Erland Cooper ,which includes field recordings from Klovharun and a new reading of Tove’s essay ‘The Island’ by her niece Sophia Jansson.
It will run until January 2022.
This will be followed by a second exhibition which will open at the William Morris Gallery in 2022, which will bring together personal objects, photographs and archival material to tell the story of Tove’s life and development as an artist.
The exhibition will invite visitors to consider Tove’s most famous creations – the Moomins – as creatures in touch with the environment and connected to nature in a powerful way.
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