Making Books - Exhibition, The Dollhouse Space (2019) - Boekhandel Blokker, Heemstede, Netherlands

<i>Making Books: Character Design and Narrative in Illustration </i>is a collection of critical and creative work investigating frameworks for practice-based research and their applications to children’s picturebook illustration, focusing in particular on the processes involved as they apply to the creation of character and narrative, using a design-based approach to constructing books. <br><br>This item contains documentation of the exhibition, which took place from March to June, 2019.<br><b>The Dollhouse </b>The Dollhouse (built in 1974 by the Dutch toy-firm G. Okkerse) is a tiny, non-profit, experimental contemporary art space. It was exhibited at Boekhandel Blokker, a bookshop in The Netherlands, allowing the wider public to interact with the Dollhouse and the exhibits it contained. A selection of books were positioned around the Dollhouse to offer a sense of narrative and context. For example, <i>The Velveteen Rabbit</i>, which features a sentient toy rabbit sat alongside Toby’s room. The work is featured on the Dollhouse website and has a considerable number of followers on Instagram.<br><br><b>All photos: Ciara Finnegan</b><b>Used with permission.</b><br><b>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law. </b><br>