We’ve been waiting to display our latest major acquisition for the Book- and Paper-arts collection, and the time has come!

For National Bookarts day - Saturday 7 June - we’ll be offering an advance peek at Ray Ward’s wonderful The daffy-down dillies which we admire will die and fade away.

This moving (literally) installation will be available to admire from around 2pm on the afternoon of Bookarts Day - and for that afternoon only, while we find a permanent place for it.

(You can see a photo of the sculpture here - but seeing it in real life is so much better!)