Artists' Books & Small Press Editions

Coracle has been producing books and other printed artefacts displaced from the page, often leading to installations for walls and other settings. A Table of Books in Ballybeg gathers most of the Irish projects produced by Coracle, working from the townland of Grange, west...

Egidio Marzona's intensive experience with contemporary art forms the basis for his encyclopaedic collecting activity, which started in the mid-1960s and continues to the present day. The book illustrates how drawings, collages, artists' publications, invitation cards and posters in both American and European art,...

Rare & Collectible This exquisite artist's-book-as-exhibition-catalogue was produced to accompany rising Los Angeles conceptualist Brandon Lattu's first European survey, at Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany. Rather than show standard thematic groups of work, Lattu here presents individual images of books from his library - to scale,...

Brian Lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, south-east London. This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and alongside its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing list of publications with poets and artists. The apogee...

Twins Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia (b. 1985 in Catania, Sicily) work with matter, time, biology, and philosophy. The peculiarity of the identical twins is to work simultaneously on the same precise and scientific body of work, because one is left-handed and the other, right-handed....

Rare & Collectible This Artist's Portfolio comprises a set of 15 photographs of sculptures of fungi presented as loose prints in a folio. Trained as an agronomic engineer, Carsten Höller (born 1961) is known for his frequent use of mushrooms as a motif and...

Colin Sackett is an artist and publisher who since the 1980s has investigated the book as a primary form for the reading, notation and classification of landscape by text and image. Englshpublshing came from the notion of remaking, in the same order, everything that...

Wirelesslessness is an annotated examination of the structural and functional constraints of direction and meaning. The seven texts: Momentum, Stack, Volume, Fraction, Continuum, Radio, Reverb; occupy a page-structure where the autonomy of the single word or page, and the ephemeral nature of reading, demonstrate...

Rare & Collectible This survey of the history and legacy of CONTROL Magazine was published on the occasion of the exhibition CONTROL at Tate Liverpool, 2018. Founded in 1965 by Stephen Willats, CONTROL remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to...

Rare & Collectible Despite the forwarding of new forms of socially based and engaged art practice by artists, a feature of culture in the last decades has been the ethos surrounding the possession of art objects. Art as property has not only persisted in...

Rare & Collectible CONTROL Issue Nineteen presents a group of artists who are all developing a counter consciousness opposed to the possessive object, though in quite different ways, however they are all focussing their work on creating society between people. Here the artwork becomes...

Rare & Collectible The art practices that are represented in this issue have in their various ways centred on the issues of meaning and function, and their counter consciousness to the object, property-based determinism of prevailing contemporary culture. An important aspect to the development...

Rare & Collectible CONTROL Magazine is seen as a vehicle for creating networks between artists who are working with people, community and society; artists that are looking for a relevance, a meaning for their art practice within the contemporary social setting. Central to such...

Rare & Collectible CONTROL represents models of self-organisation and contextualisation in art practice that are functioning within the contemporary social and cultural landscape. These models by their very existence, operation, and function, act as a critical counter consciousness to the reductive determinism that dominates...

This book reproduces in black and white a group of witch watercolours made between 2016 and 2020 by artist duo Cullinan Richards. The subtle hues and shimmering liquid tones of the originals were translated into matt black on reflective high gloss paper to produce...

Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were originally written by hand, then later typeset for printing and publication. Here they are handwritten again by Erica Van Horn.  Writing someone else’s list has been a joy. Handwriting these sentences by Stein has provided me with...

Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a way of making all events rituals with an eagerness for them to happen again....

Facsimiles of 13 painted-out postcards following the life of St. Anthony with narrative captions opposite. Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. Known for his 13 miracles, He is especially invoked and venerated all over...

Rare & Collectible 32 stories of about a page or so that tell of “the plight of birds encountered in local circumstances”. Erica Van Horn recounts episodes from her life in rural Ireland in which birds play a prominent role; she talks about Michael...

At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). Painters and poets-including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky-collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which...