Behind the scenes of Wallace and Gromit at new exhibition

Описание: (10 Feb 2026)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK - 9 February 2026

1. Various of dining room set model for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, 2024, part of the ‘Inside Aardman: Wallace &Gromit and Friends’ exhibition at the Young V&A
2. Various of child looking at the exhibit
3. Various of Lady Tottington puppet from Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 2005
4. Various of children looking at Wanted poster for Feathers McGraw, an evil penguin criminal mastermind
5. Various of Alex Newson, chief curator, Young V&A, looking at dining room model
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Newson, chief curator, Young V&A: 
"So Inside Aardman: Wallace, Gromit and Friends, is a celebration of 50 years of Aardman animations. They've been making some of the UK's most well-known and well-loved animations since I was a child. I remember seeing them when I was young and being really inspired by them and my children now watch them with me and they're equally inspired. So we've worked with Aardman to really tell the story about how they make their animations, how they get their ideas, where they come from, how they then turn those ideas into characters and stories. And then how those stories become props and models and puppets which are then animated to get the animations and the features that we all know and love today."

7. Various of Snowmanotron model, driven by Wallace, from Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions, 2002
8. Various of Gromit in the Greenhouse from Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 2005
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Newson, chief curator, Young V&A: 
"I think the enduring appeal of Wallace and Gromit is partly down to the jokes and the stories and how well written they are. But I think there's also something about the style of the animation as well. I've been talking about thumbiness, which is a funny word, but it's the way that you can see almost the fingerprints, their fingerprints in the puppets as you look at it. And I think in today's world where everything's increasingly digital, to see that handcrafted approach to it, to be able to literally see the hands of the person who's made it in the final thing, is really appealing actually and it's one of the reasons why they're still loved today as much as they were."

10. Tilt down of reconstruction of a model maker’s desk
11. Various of puppets under construction
12. Various of Were-Rabbit puppet shown in various stages of construction
13. Close of finished Were-Rabbit puppet
14. Various of early stage of Were-Rabbit puppet showing metal frame
15. Various of set showing cameras and lightings for a prison scene with Feathers McGraw
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Newson, chief curator, Young V&A: 
"The concept for the show was to show the process, actually not just show what the camera sees but to show what the camera doesn't see, give the opportunity to see around the sides of set models and see what the animators and the lighting designers and all the prop makers do. Almost give a glimpse into what it's like to work at Aardman."

17. Wide of set for museum from Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, 1993
18. Various of artworks in museum set
19. Pan from museum set to a figure lurking in the dark just outside the set
20. Close of Feathers McGraw with his remote control, lurking just outside set
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Newson, chief curator, Young V&A: 
"So Aardman are well known for sneaking in little hidden jokes and Easter eggs in their films and we've tried to do a few similar things in the exhibition as well. My favourite is a little hidden Feathers with his remote control."

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