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Play Room is a collaborative exhibition featuring work of upcoming illustrators, fresh from the MA course at London’s Camberwell art institution. Their visual feast will be on display between 10th and 24th March 2009.

Play is something that never leaves us. As children we negotiate the world through play; our understanding of the world is developed in play. Everyone has been a childhood, whether it was a pleasant one or not. Most people long for this time again. There is a warm nostalgia that envelopes childhood. We yearn to be back there with those magical toys and cubby-houses made of old sheets. Naivety and the child-like freedom have a resonance that evokes these nostalgic feelings in the collective psyche.

The work exhibited represents the range and possibilities of narrative and displays the distinctive personalities of the artists in one space. Each artist brings to the fore their own narrative, illuminating a sense of themselves and their experiences. This is then shared with the viewer and ignites their own memories and personal nostalgia.

It is this sense of playfulness and curiosity that unites each of the artists and illustrators exhibiting. The freedom of expression and exploration of narratives is the essence of the exhibition, which showcases fresh, contemporary presentation of illustration, design and print.

This colourful spectacle will be open to the public between 10th March and 24th March 2009. Admission is free, Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.30pm. For more information go to www.adrem.uk.com/dreamspace.