Perverse look at art and literature comes to Yorkshire literary shrine

Now the home of author Laurence Sterne, is being used to showcase the talents of other internationally-renowned artists and writers in the first exhibition of its kind in the UK.

The exhibition, called The Perverse Library, has been conceived and curated by Dr Simon Morris, an artist and York College teacher, and will show works by a generation of artists who have sought a radical re-consideration of the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

The event will include work by the Irish writer James Joyce, the American novelist and poet, Kathy Acker, and the US artist Ed Ruscha, closely associated with the Pop Art movement.

The premiere of a film, Making Nothing Happen, which celebrates the work of expatriate Czech artist Pavel Bchler, the winner of this year's Northern Art Prize, will take place in Coxwold's village hall on Saturday, October 30.

Shandy Hall was Sterne's home when he wrote the now classic experimental novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. For more information on the exhibition visit www.laurencesterne trust.org.uk or call 01347 868465.