Immerse in William Blake's Iconic Work with Tate Experience

This winter, Tate, Sam Gainsborough and Blinkink bring you a new immersive experience centred around the art of William Blake.

'William Blake: Reimagined Visions' is an immersive digital film that brings twelve of Blake's most iconic works from Tate's collection to life, scored by Aphex Twin's '#3'.

Co-produced by La Reggia di Venaria as part of their latest exhibition, 'The Age of William Blake: Visionary Journeys', the film is presented alongside a selection of the artist’s finest works and those of his contemporaries from the Tate collection. The exhibition will run at La Reggia di Venaria in Turin until February 2025.

Blake and his contemporaries lived through a period of revolution, when the world around them was being radically transformed. As they grappled with this, artists pushed art into new and uncharted territories.

Claiming to have seen great monuments in Asia in a vision, Blake believed he could best fulfil his duty to Britain by painting on a grand scale in a public space.

While this never occurred in his lifetime, this film allows some of Blake’s works to be seen on a scale closer to his ambitions. It also gives viewers the opportunity to experience some works closer to their original colour where pigments had faded.

In William Blake: Reimagined Visions, each artwork fluidly flows into the next, highlighting the shape-shifting theatrical characters in Blake’s world; it offers audiences the chance to truly immerse themselves in his imaginative universe.

This latest film marks Sam Gainsborough's second collaboration with Tate, having previously created a promo film for the 2019 William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain. This is his first immersive film project.