Adults and children of all ages are welcome to come along, have a drink, relax on the cozy rug under the huge glowing helium balloon, and rediscover their inner child.Īll ticket proceeds will be donated to BookTrust, the UK’s biggest reading charity. These events will range from spoken word to lectures to poetry readings and will be joined by some of brightest and most talented people in literature, with each night taking one of the books from the library as a theme. To run alongside The Mouse and His Child, NOW Gallery are inviting you to explore the relationship between childhood and adulthood over seven special literary events held in Studio Morison’s enchanted children’s library. The aesthetic will manifest this unexpected literature blind spot, drawing both adult and children readers alike and creating a space of warmth that speaks of child-like things with an adult undercurrent, just like the books themselves. The library will be placed in and around the sculptural installation, upending the notion of bookshelves and interacting directly with the objects. Benches will be clustered for sitting and reading alone or in groups. Central to the exhibition will be a lit sculptural form, surrounded by bespoke stools, tables and a rug for lying on. The gallery space will be transformed into a sculptural and functional space, stepping between art and design practices. Through a diverse programme of literary events, the children’s library will become a place to discuss, discover, listen and read. This exhibition will explore the relationship between adulthood and childhood through authors such as Ursula Le Guin, John Steinbeck, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Spike Milligan, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce, Umberto Eco, and so on.
The book and the differing affect it has on children and adults encapsulates the curious nuanced experience of reading children’s literature as an adult. The Mouse and his Child Studio Morison 28 Feb – įor NOW Gallery’s 2019 Design commission, creative duo Studio Morison will create a sculptural space containing a library of children’s fiction written by adult fiction authors, named after the children’s novel The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban.
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