Artwork lovers planning to go to Dulwich Image Gallery and admire its collections nowadays are in for a terrific shock: A assortment that depicts Florence Welch — the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Florence + the Machine — drawing consideration to her curiosity within the Pre-Raphaelite artwork. After 4 years, the artist took it to her Instagram web page to let followers know that the band’s fifth album, titled “Dance Fever,” can have 14 songs, describing it as “A fairytale in 14 songs.”

With the brand new album formally out (launched Could thirteenth, 2022), followers who wish to expertise this acoustic fairytale as authentically as attainable can do that by having a stroll by way of the picturesque gardens of Dulwich Image Gallery — the place the place the BRIT award-winner had a efficiency 5 years in the past and that’s residence to the Dance Fever Tapestries as of Friday, Could thirteenth, 2022.

Immortalized by the streaming platform Spotify as an 1800s-style tapestry masterpiece, the exhibition coincides with the artwork gallery’s “Reframed: The Lady within the Window,” operating till September 4th, 2022. The gathering, which is believed to be the world’s first tapestry “billboard,” celebrates the newly launched album and illustrates not solely the artist but additionally the lyrical inspiration she discovered within the Pre-Raphaelite artwork whereas engaged on the album in the course of the lockdown.

Commenting on the exhibition, Florence Welch, mentioned: “Pre-Raphaelite artwork has been a musical and inventive inspiration of mine for years, dropped at life most not too long ago by way of the lyrics and album inventive in Dance Fever. To be transported again to my favourite period and reimagined within the fashion of the main ladies who impressed Rossetti and Hunt is a dream I by no means imagined, on prime of being hung in one among my most beloved galleries in my hometown of South London.”

“The Dance Fever Tapestries that includes Florence are an ideal complement to our newest exhibition ‘Reframed: The Lady within the Window,’ which explores the recurring motif of ‘the lady within the window’ by way of historical past with over 50 works by artists together with Rembrandt van Rijn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Louise Bourgeois, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, and Rachel Whiteread. Florence herself is a modern-day illustration of Pre-Raphaelite muses like Sir John Everett Millais’s Ophelia. 5 years on from her unique live performance right here in 2017, we’re thrilled to have the Tapestries hanging in our gardens,” continues Jennifer Scott, Director at Dulwich Image Gallery.

Safiya Lambie-Knight, Head of Music, Spotify UK and Eire, concludes: “Florence’s ardour for the Pre-Raphaelite period is mirrored within the ethereal album art work for Dance Fever, alongside together with her dream-like, poetic lyrics. Working carefully with artists to convey their passions to life, we’re extremely excited to immortalize Florence as a Nineteenth-century tapestry as she celebrates 5 albums and over 3.7 billion international Spotify streams. Additional to the Dance Fever Tapestries, we’ve collaborated with Florence on an Album Expertise on the app, giving followers unique content material from Florence about her inventive course of and inspiration. Spotify’s enhanced codecs permit followers to attach with artists in a deeper, extra partaking manner, and provides artists a technique to immerse followers within the inspiration, tales, and creativity behind their artwork.”