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'Journey to Fantastic Lands' features a selection of interactive and engaging artworks and playful animations from the Gallery's Collection. The exhibition also includes a site-specific adaptation of Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine's interactive animation You Were In My Dream (2010), which has been developed especially for this exhibition in collaboration with the artists.

This exciting exhibition encourages young visitors to explore the way artists use their imagination to bring to life fantastical worlds that are full of adventure and mystery.

Activities For Children

Pip & Pop

Children were invited to go on a journey of discovery and create their own magical world as part of the digital interactive we miss you magic land! Make sure you watch out for a special feather that will take you to an all new experience within we miss you magic land!

The exhibition also featured four beautiful, glittery scenes created by Pip & Pop.

Isobel Knowels and Van Sowerwine

Children were able to delve into the mysterious realm of dreams in Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine's interactive stop motion animation You Were In My Dream 2010. Set in a shadowy forest, they will encounter different animals along the way.

Hwang In Jae

Young visitors could travel through the mountains, to heaven and back in Hwang In Jae's large-scale mural series that follows the traditional Korean children's story 'The Fairy of the Kumgang Mountains'.

Rosemary Laing

Rosemary Laing uses the camera as a tool to explore the relationships people have with the environment. Young visitors could admire her expansive photographs, from the 'groundspeed' series, that turn the ideas of how we think about 'home' and the 'natural world' upside down.

Tom Moore

Tom Moore's zany glass creatures are brought to life in the animation Autoganic, everything explodes 2008 in which a cityscape comes under attack by an invading fleet of alien 'space burgers'. Children could also view Tom Moore's sculptural work as part of the exhibition.