Nov 17

Written by: Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010

One Brown Box: A Storybook Exhibition for Children
6th November 2010 - 18th December 2010

Objectspace, 8 Ponsonby Road, Auckland. Ph 09 376 6216

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

In this exhibition, designed primarily for children, Bronwyn Lloyd and Karl Chitham treat the humble brown box as a plain structure with unlimited imaginative potential while at the same time bringing together two of their primary enthusiasms: making up stories and making objects from paper and cardboard. One Brown Box is made up of adaptations of five classic children’s stories including The Princess and the Pea, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Hansel and Gretel, each told from the perspective of overlooked, minor and absent characters from the original tales, illustrated with large and small models made entirely from boxes and paper.

The exhibition of adapted tales is supplemented by a huge ‘I Spy’ game with objects galore and a display of folktales and fairytales from the collection of writer and bibliophile, Jack Ross, who has compiled a short history of the fairytale genre detailing the fascinating origins of these stories that are now so familiar to us.

 http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/show.php?documentCode=2481
 

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