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

Making Books: Character Design and Narrative in Illustration 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. This item contains documentation of the exhibition, which took place from March to June, 2019.The Dollhouse 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, The Velveteen Rabbit, 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.All photos: Ciara FinneganUsed with permission.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.