PAGES Artist Book Fair
Central Court, Leeds Art Gallery & Room 700, Leeds Central Library, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AA, UK
Friday 21st March, 11am-5pm & Saturday 22nd March, 11am-4pm
Admission FREE – open to all
A.BS.orb • AMBruno • Archidustrial • BA/MA Graphic Design, Leeds Arts University • Batool Showghi • BA Visual Communication, Leeds Arts University • Bound Unbound • Cally Trench • Caroline Penn • David Armes • David Barton • Essence Press • Fine Art at Leeds Arts University • Frances Day • Gnōbilis Press • Graham Martin • Guy Bigland • Hestan Isle Press • Hollyscribbles • intergraphia • John McDowall • Kristyna Baczynski • Leeds Fine Art • Less Than 500 Press • Longbarrow Press • Making Space • Marie-Alice Harel • Maxine Huang & Ollie Tsai • New Arcadian Press • Pat Hodson • Pauline Lamont-Fisher and Erin K. Schmidt • RCA Artist Publishing Research Group • Rock-Tree-Landscape • SALT+SHAW • SU4IP • The Heavy Duty Press • Tianxi Wang • Wild Pansy Press
Readings, poetry and prose from new and recent publications presented by participants in the PAGES Artists’ Book Fair
Saturday 22nd March, times/room TBC, 1st floor, Leeds Central Library
Coordinated by Lucy Cunningham and The Writers’ Room
Enfolded Journeys
The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street, Leeds LS1 6AL
18-21 March & 31 March-4 April 2025, Monday to Friday, 1-3pm
(Access on Saturday 22 March by appointment only)
Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya / David Ainley and Joan Ainley / Haleema Aziz / Sena Basoz, Ulgen Semerci and Serra Tansel / Peter Carrington / Danuta Dąbrowska / Frances Day / Katrin Freitag / Judy Goldhill / Deirdre Kelly / Graham Martin / Sandra Masterson / Andrew Morrison and Maria Stadnicka / Kausar Nigita / Alastair Noble / Caroline Penn / Sumi Perera / Emilija Pliaukštaitė / Mireille Ribière / Isobel Richards / paula roush, steve block, tom chaplin, kobby k, ana kang, beatrice luca, fern michaels, jake monib and nareena sevanesian / Batool Showghi / Vicky Vergou / Wei Wang / Corinne Welch / Maria White / Katrina Whitehead / Roy Willingham
Enfolded Journeys is an open call touring exhibition of new artists’ books made in response to themes suggested by the title – ones relating to travel, displacement, geographies and borders, and migration in recent times and in the past as the effects of such movements of peoples, whether compelled or voluntary, may resound through generations. Curated by John McDowall and Chris Taylor, and co-selected with artists Karen Babayan and Sophie Loss, the exhibition will be launched at The Leeds Library (NOT the Central Library) to coincide with the PAGES Artists’ Book Fair.
The touring exhibition will provide an opportunity and contextualised platform for 28 individual artists and makers, to show their new book works to varied audiences across the UK and abroad. Coming together, these artists’ books will exemplify the story telling, documenting of experience and the sharing characteristics of the book, which have always provided a self-contained, intimate yet accessible and mobile form. Furthermore, an artist’s book may also involve an encounter that is distinctive to the medium; one that encompasses a shift of expectations of what a book is or does.
The exhibition will tour to Appleby-in-Westmorland TIC (3-14 June 2025), DunoonMOCA (12 July-2 August 2025), Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster (May-July 2026) and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (September 2026). Further dates will be announced in due course.
Free exhibition – Open to all
For more information about planning your visit and accessibility, please visit https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/visit-us/library-tours
info@pagesartistbooks.org
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