Guestroom

Lawson Park Library is a purpose-built library commissioned by Grizedale Arts for their new headquarters at Lawson Park Farm in The Lake District.

The library has been conceived to reflect the ethos and process of Grizedale Arts
in adapting the programmes it runs as its system of categorisation. Books, films and ephemera are clustered around themes and ideas connected to specific exhibition projects, including research and reference materials, artists’ projects and documentation. The library is an evolving archive and framework for Grizedale Arts, but also a document of the creative process and the formation of ideas.

Guestroom’s own collection Ways of Living forms the external category housed within the library.

www.lawsonpark.org/library/

examples of the library content
live in the forest (includes history of grizedale, scultpure and land art, landscape/nature/natural history, projects predating 'roadshow')
roadshow (alternative culture, folklore, travelling shows and temporary construction, tv and broadcasting, preaching and flyposting, salvation and failed ideologies)
romantic detachment (incl romanticism, americana, blacksploitation, soul music and wrestling, pilgrimage)
food/stacking/samurai (incl usefulness, cooking farming and gardening, happystacking in china, seven samurai in japan, sustainability, engaged practice)
cumbriana proof (incl localism, lake culture, arts and craft movement, ruskin, coniston water festival, creative egremont)
ways of living (incl journeys and travel, biographies, ideas of freedom and transformation/proposals for how to live)