Wallace Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman, which premiered in Paris last year at Art Ludique – Le Musée, will feature 350 original artworks and more than 50 set pieces from the studio responsible for Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run.
• Wallace Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman will be showing at Acmi from 28 June 2017 as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series.
The flying machine from Chicken Run will be on display, and a whole section of the exhibition is focused on Wallace’s inventions.
Aardman has since released a number of feature films using this stop-motion technique, including Chicken Run in 2000, and Wallace and Gromit’s fourth outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in 2005, for which they won an Academy Award and a Bafta.