The Small Press Project invites you to SPIIIIINELESS , an exhibition of bookworks made by Slade students and staff.
I contributed with my self-published book Plain.
Plain, self-published book, 30 x 30 cm, linen cover 2020
Initiated in 2015 by Printmaking and Photography staff at the Slade School of Fine Art and the UCL Art Librarian, the Small Press Project utilises printed matter from the UCL Special Collections Small Press Collections - one of the most significant collections of independently published magazines, newspapers and pamphlets in the world.
Many of these works reflect the social, political and cultural context of printing and publishing dating from the mid 19th Century to the present day and exhibit the shifts in print culture as well as the evolution and development of the artist’s book as a method of making. Each year the project produces a collaborative publication responding to changing themes selected by students and staff.
This year the project was part of the Spineless Wonders programme, a 3-day series of events held throughout the academic year 2021/22 presenting research on small press publications, raising questions for contemporary and future works through returning to early histories of word and image.