âThe mind of Tim Burton is a strange and wonderful place,â said Nick Curtis in The Standard. Best known as the director of films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, Burton is also âan animator, painter, writer, sculptor, puppeteer, photographer and technological innovatorâ whose singular vision has birthed no end of âfantastical, delightful, macabre ideasâ. This touring exhibition, now in London for its final stop, brings together more than 600 exhibits to present a âcomprehensiveâ overview of Burtonâs weird and wonderful career. Featuring everything from early influences and âjuveniliaâ to props, puppets, costumes and video from his best-loved films, as well as illustrations and photographs, it shows how, since his 1970s adolescence, this most idiosyncratic of directors has created a visual idiom that is âdistinctly his ownâ. ItâŠ
