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Ambeck Design
Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck is a Farnham-based Danish designer, book artist, teacher and curator. Twice winner of the Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Award of Excellence. Investigating life’s details – simple yet complicated.
ambeckdesign.blogspot.com
AMBruno
Coalition of artists with a common interest in the book, established 2008. Annual project invites proposals in response to a theme. This year’s ‘intervals’ launches at the Fair. Featured artists include Ximena Pérez Grobet, Philip Lee, Peter Rapp and Elisabeth Tonnard.
ambruno.co.uk
Archidustrial
The imprint of architect and photographer, Nick Haseltine. Poetic social and community travels of place and architecture, often industrial. Illustrated with Haseltine’s screen prints and photographs.
archidustrial.uk
Artists books online
Snowdonia-based artist Noelle Griffiths and Gloucestershire-based artist and printmaker Andrew Morrison make small limited edition and one-off hand-bound books using print, paint and letterpress; digital imagery and text.
www.artistsbooksonline.com
Bad Betty Press
Award-winning publisher of new poetry and curator of live literature events across the UK. Based in Nottingham and run by poets Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall. Also pamphlet series Little Betty.
badbettypress.com
BadBloodandSibyl
The imprint of artist Andrew Kötting who makes films, performances, installations, bookworks, CDs, LPs, VR and music, often in collaboration with daughter Eden or writer Iain Sinclair.
andrewkotting.com
Boekie Woekie
Henriëtte van Egten (Netherlands), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Iceland) and Jan Voss (Germany) are artists who make books and run Amsterdam’s Boekie Woekie Book Shop and Gallery.
boekiewoekie.com
Bookartbookshop
Shoreditch bookshop specialising in books by artists. Founded by owner Tanya Peixoto in 2002 it also stocks small press publications of 20th century avant-garde works from Dadaism to ‘Pataphysics.
bookartbookshop.com
Broken Sleep Books
Working-class indie publisher putting access to the arts at the forefront of what they do. Founded by writer and editor Aaron Kent. Poetry, short stories and non-fiction. Based in Talgarreg.
brokensleepbooks.com
Camberwell Press/MA Illustration
Publications from the in-house imprint of the art college, previously home to the renowned MA Book Arts.
Camberwell MA Illustration
Centrala
Engaging and inspiring graphic novels and comics for children and adults, some in translation. The series Life – Love – Death presents exceptionally drawn literature. Based in Brighton, Poznań and Prague.
centrala.org.uk
Caroline Penn
London-based artist using photography, text and drawing to create minimal narratives in book, box and film on the themes of home, memory and loss.
carolinepenn.com
CHEERIO Publishing
London-based, eclectic, indie publishing imprint and film production company launched in 2020 by publisher Clare Conville, and writer and curator Harriet Vyner, together with The Estate of Francis Bacon.
instagram.com/cheeriopublishing
CB Editions
London-based publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Founded on a wing and a prayer in 2007 by ex-Faber poet Charles Boyle, surprised to be still here.
cbeditions.com
Chisato Tamabayashi
London-based installation and book artist. Books, cards and artworks. Many publications are hand-cut or pop-up; most are colourful. chisatotamabayashi.com
CLOD Magazine and Books
Universal truths revealed by small-town hacks, in their magazine of fiction; CLOD. Off-shoot book editions emphasise the team’s ‘local’ to ‘universal’ approach, using the ‘half-joke’ to garner ‘50% seriousness’.
clodmagazine.wixsite.com/ourspace
Confingo Publishing
Independent publishing house based in Manchester. Literary fiction including translated work and books on art and music. New poetry imprint Carmenta launched in 2024. Bi-annual literary and arts magazine founded in 2014.
confingopublishing.uk
Things Grown Distant, Mike Fox, 2024
Double Butted
Small independent press based in Southampton. Printmaker and bookbinder Katherine Anteney and photographer Simon Griggs make books about the landscape as seen and experienced while commuting, biking, swimming and hiking.
doublebutted.co.uk
Dunlin Press
Based in Wivenhoe, Essex, the imprint of writer and poet M W Bewick and artist and editor Ella Johnston. Celebrating ten years of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-essays and illustration. dunlinpress.com
Egidija Čiricaitė
Artist, poet and researcher, based in London, working with and around language and publishing. Books and visual poetry creating “nebulous worlds at the periphery of linguistic experience”.
egidija.com
Ensixteen Editions
Diaristic zine series ‘bio auto graphic’ is celebrating a 20th anniversary (36 issues to date). Writer/artist Mike Nicholson is a Farnham-based, Lake District-born illustrator and academic.
instagram.com/ensixteen_editions
Essence Press
The imprint of Edinburgh-based artist, curator and publisher, Julie Johnstone. Minimal quiet books, cards and poem objects, exploring perception and contemplative experience.
juliejohnstone.com
Fieldnotes
Artist-run publishing project based in Newham, east London. Annual print journal, workshops, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Poetic innovation, collaborations and community.
fieldnotes.site
Fifthsyllable
Small press releasing artists books and editions. Also bimonthly single sheet publication A3/4 released in small numbers by a different artist each time. Run by artist Scott Robertson it releases work when he can find the time and money to do so. Based in Hastings.
fifthsyllable.co.uk
Fourth Door Review
Occasional cultural review of art, architecture, craft, design, new music, technology and ecology. Editor Oliver Lowenstein is a writer and magaziner living in Lewes, Sussex.
fourthdoor.co.uk
GG Print Studio
Swedish print studio, intaglio printmaking and letterpress, with a focus on book art. Exhange programme for artists, poets and graphic designers. Managed by Lina Nordenström and Lars Nyberg.
grafikverkstan.se
If a Leaf Falls Press
The London poetry imprint of poet and author, Sam Riviere. Limited-edition titles with an emphasis on appropriative and procedural writing processes. Design by O. Tong.
ifaleaffallspress.com
intergraphia
Commissioned pamphlet series featuring collaborative and collective works by artists and writers. Editors writer and artist Emma Bolland and artist Rachel Smith are based in Sheffield.
intergraphia.cargo.site
Jacqueline Thomas Books
London based book designer and maker. Composes unique digital collage imagery to explore the physical and natural sciences. Subjects include conservation and protection of our environment.
jacquelinetomasbooks.co.uk
Jane Hyslop
Artist exploring natural and human histories through observational drawing, reading, topography and material experimentation to make books and editions on paper. Based in Midlothian.
janehyslop.com
John Dilnot
Artist and printmaker, making books since 1985 as an integral part of his practice. Also makes prints, paintings and box works. Based in East Sussex.
johndilnot.com
Kurt Johannessen
Norwegian performance, video and installation artist, writer and publisher. Since 1984, through his imprint Zeth Johannessen has made books that are minimal, poetic and sometimes funny.
zeth.no
Liver and Lights
This year, London artist and musician John Bently’s imprint is 40 years old. Publications feature ‘contemporary and cast-off reprographic technology, from skip-rescued photocopiers to delicate hand cut rubber stamps…the DIY ethic personified’.
liverandlights.com
Lolli Editions
Based at Somerset House in London, Lolli publishes innovative fiction in translation.
lollieditions.com
Longbarrow Press
Sheffield-based poetry publisher of work exploring the intersections of landscape, history and memory. Collaborations include walks, exhibitions and field recordings. Founded 2006 by writer and editor Brian Lewis.
longbarrowpress.com
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
The London-based press of artist, writer, and editor, Sharon Kivland. Writing about reading / re-reading: essays, experimental fiction and a little poetry, critical and conceptual writing.
mabibliotheque.cargo.site
Mark Pawson
London-based one-man production line of publications occupying the territory between artists books and zines, plus postcards, badges, multiples and other ephemera. Rubberstamps, HP LaserJet Pro 401d and Print Gocco.
markpawson.uk
Muttons and Nuts
The letterpress and bookbinding studio of Philip Treble, a typographer and graphic designer based in East Yorkshire. He makes books and art prints, and takes commissions for letterpress printing.
muttonsandnuts.co.uk
Negative Press London
Artist-led press by Roelof Bakker. Exploring the potential of relationships between image, text and form. Addresses important contemporary issues and historical events. Hastings-based.
neg-press.com
Magnificent Bodies, Roelof Bakker, 2024
New North Press
East London-based letterpress studio founded in 1986 by Graham Bignell, now run in partnership with Richard Ardagh. Publishes limited edition books and posters, including the broadside Forme – a typographical exploration of science, language and understanding.
new-north-press.co.uk
Nightjar Press
Limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. Based in Manchester, editor Nicholas Royle is a novelist and short story writer.
nightjarpress.weebly.com
Northing
Based in Bergen Northing promotes cultural exchange between Norway and East-Asia through its multi-art venue, bookstore and the award-winning publishing arm Kinakaal.
www.northing.no
ottoGraphic
Otto is a graphic artist who has been screen printing books since 1995. The books contain visual narratives, freely combining text and image. Otto works on all aspects of a book as a unit, combining form, content, printing and binding. Based in Brittany.
ottographic.fr
paper view books
Sal Nunkachov publishes concrete and visual poetry, runs a gallery and a print shop of obsolete techniques and machines and is curating the concrete and sound poetry fest letra under hearsay label. paper view is based in Leira, Portugal.
paperviewbooks.pt
Pilot Press
London-based imprint of artist Richard Porter. Dedicated to the work of queer artists and featuring the anthology series ‘Responses’ of work made in response to key artworks of the AIDS crisis, 1981 to 1996.
pilotpress.co.uk
Poetics Research Centre
Led by Redell Olsen and Robert Hampson at Royal Holloway: poetry, hybrid poetics and bookworks by present and former students. Chapbooks, concrete and visual poetry and performance.
poeticsresearchcentre.wordpress.com
Prototype Publishing
Poetry, prose, interdisciplinary projects and anthologies. London press, founded 2019 by publisher, editor and musician Jess Chandler, co-founder of Test Centre and House Sparrow Press.
prototypepublishing.co.uk
Red Sphinx
Berlin-based press of English artist, editor and translator Malcolm Green. Artist’s books, postcards, prints and Seedy CDs. Fluxus, ‘pataphysics, founding member of the Dieter Roth Academy.
redsphinx.com
Roberts Print
Based in Margate, Richard Roberts makes artists’ books using letterpress, lithography and screenprinting. Satires and celebrations of different aspects of contemporary culture.
robertsprint.co.uk
Scratch Books
Small London press dedicated to the craft of the short story. Anthologies, collections, competitions and events. Edited by publisher and writer Tom Conaghan.
scratch-books.co.uk
Shearsman Books
Editor, publisher and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by Shearsman Books. Oxfordshire-based. Publishes poetry, poetry-related essays and literary criticism.
shearsman.com
siglio
Books, editions and ephemera from the intersection between art and literature. Founded in Los Angeles in 2008 by Lisa Pearson, now based in the Berkshire mountains, Massachusetts.
sigliopress.com
Steven J Fowler
London-based writer, poet, performer and pioneer in collaborative inter-disciplinary practice. Fowler has published over 60 works with numerous UK small press publishers and was the subject of the Small Publishers Fair 2022 exhibition.
stevenjfowler.com
Tenement Press
An occasional publisher of experimental, esoteric, accidental and interdisciplinary literatures; cousin to the magazine Hotel. Edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle, designed by Traven T. Croves. Based London and Bristol.
tenementpress.com
The Everyday Press
The imprint of artist and book dealer Arnaud Desjardin. Art books and artists books “pay particular attention to the book as an object”. Founded 2007. London-based.
theeverydaypress.net
Time has fallen asleep
In 2010 Mette Edvardsen (Varamo Press) started this collaborative performance project about memorising books. It comprises a library, imprint, bookshop, workshops and exhibitions, and operates internationally.
timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be
Tracey Bush/Fathom Five Books
Hampshire-based artist who makes artist’s books, drawings with collage and paper sculptures based on the natural world. Tracey will showcase work from a recent residency with the Centre for Fine Print Research, at UWE in Bristol.
traceybush.uk
Tufnell Art Press
London artist, illustrator and printmaker Debra Thompson explores observational themes such as ‘signals’ through idiosyncratic drawings and text, traditional and minimalist cloth and paper bindings.
tufnellartpress.co.uk
Varamo Press
Oslo-based, artist-run, indie publishing house founded in 2018 by Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters. Collaborations and the series ‘Gestures’: small format, unified design grey books of essays, translations and reformulations.
varamopress.org
Velocity Press
Velocity Press was founded in 2019 by Colin Steven to curate the best writing in electronic music and club culture – with all the care, creativity and community ethos of an independent record label.
velocitypress.uk
Weproductions
Founded in the 1970s and run by artist Helen Douglas based in Yarrow, Scotland. Books combine photographic image with page and sequence to explore visual narrative and themes of place and the natural world.
weproductions.com
William Allen Word and Image
Specialist in artists books and archives; small press publishing, concrete and visual poetry, conceptual and mail art from European and South American avant-gardes.
william-allen.net
Writers Kingston at Kingston University
Literary cultural institute dedicated to an expansive, innovative understanding of creative writing, directed by Steven J. Fowler.
writerskingston.com
Yasushi Cho
Book artist from Tokyo. Publications are made using reconstructed images of printed matter and snapped photos.
publ-site.org/laughter
publ-site.org/nikkoo
Mike Clements
Fine art printmaker and book artist Mike Clements was due to take part in the fair this year but died a month or so earlier. It would have been his seventh time at the Fair. He was loved by publishers and visitors alike.
Mike worked in the Border Marches and made by hand his short run editions. His ideas came from close observation of the world around him and often focused on quirky aspects of life.
We will miss him and we will remember him.
mikeclementsartist.com
