Saturday 22nd October 11am – 6pm
The Holden Gallery, Cavendish Street, All Saints, Manchester
Held in the beautiful hall of The Holden Gallery at Manchester School of Art Hot Bed Press are proud to be running the 6th Manchester Artists’ Book Fair book fair in association with Manchester Metropolitan University. We are keen to build on last year’s endeavours and to hold another fair filled with fantastic bookarts and associated events. We have 40 stands booked, and are also running special demonstrations on marbling, printing on an Adana press, plus a talk by Benedict Phillips on his new ‘Benedictionary’. There’s simple lots to do and see, and more importantly wonderful artists’ books to buy direct from the artists themselves:
 Exhibitors include…
- A P Books
- Two Wood Press
- Cambridge School of Art
- Benedict Phillips
- We Have Beaks
- Scriven and Kruse
- Catriona Stamp
- Charlotte Vallance and Jat Bains
- Claire Batt and Jane Hughes
- Café Royal Books
- David Barton
- Pagination
- Gemma Lacey and Sue Shaw
- Incline Press
- WEPRODUCTIONS
- Hot Bed Bookstars
- James Sharp
- Jane Simon
- Are we nearly there yet?
- Lucy Roscoe (The Book Tree Press)
- MMU Special Collections
- Oliver Flude
- Pat Hodson
- Paul Johnson
- Impact Press, UWE Bristol
- Signature
- Trudy Roe
- Vicki J Wheeler
- Ratchford Ltd
- D3 Editions
- Elizabeth Willow
- Kate Bufton – Book Transformations
- BA Hons Graphic Design Leeds College of Art
- Wirral Met College – BA Fine Art
- Common Books
- Other Way Up Press and Friends
- Angela Davies and Oh Golly Gosh
We are also working in collaboration with Salford School of Art & Design and Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collectionsto offer a Symposium: Photography and the Artist’s Book which complements the book fair and will run on Friday 21st October. (For more information, please contact Theresa Wilkie.
Click here for travel directions.
Hope to see you there.
Sean Rorke
Artistic Director
