Presse Books
Fair
Details
Saturday 17 June 2023
11am – 6pm
BOOK TICKETS
Free entry with no booking required
A suggested donation of £5 will support the programming and artist fees.
Getting there
FormaHQ, 140 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4GW. Located on the ground floor with wheelchair accessible toilet.
Peveril Gardens is located on the rooftop of the building. A lift is available on request by emailing info@forma.org.uk or speaking to a member of staff.
Presse Books Fair
17 June 2023
Presse Books Fair is a free one-day festival at FormaHQ bringing together over 30 independent publishers and artists, workshops, a live zine assemblage, talks, performances, readings and more. One day to celebrate independent publishing in all its configurations, make new connections and give a platform to new practitioners in art publishing.
Saturday 17 June 2023, From 11am
Full line-up to be announced soon
Free entry with no booking required
A suggested donation of £5 will support the programming and artist fees
The full programme includes:
11am STRIKE: Live zine assembly
12 - 2pm Cyanotypes in the Garden: workshop with artist Tom Pope
2.30 - 3pm Everything Happens So Much: Oisín Roberts (Think Big, Read Community Library), Wes Knowler and D Mortimer talk about libraries
3.30 - 4.30pm Pulped Pages: book-making with artist Lucie MacGregor hosted by Drawing Room
4 - 4.30pm Content Prole, AQNB Anthology: conversation between Steph Kretowicz & Jared Davis
5 - 5.30pm Gilding the Rim: performative reading by co-operative queer press Canal
6 - 6.30pm A Perfect Sentence: excerpts read by Oliver Frank Chanarin from his new book
STRIKE
A new low-fi zine published by Forma, which will be pasted onto the brutalist orange concrete walls of Peveril Gardens, with contributions from 58 international artists including: Clémentine Bedos, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Adham Faramawy, Flatness, Marco Fusinato, Holly Graham, Julianknxx, Anne Imhof, Lawrence Lek, Eleni Papazoglou, Sin Wai Kin, Kialy Tihngang & more. Order your copy here.
With publishing from
Anamot Press, Art Monthly, AQNB, Banner Repeater, Belmacz, Bricks from the Kiln, Book Works, Bronze Age, Capricious Publishing, Canal, Chan Magazine, Common Threads Press, Cool Moist Books, Decadence Comics, Dominic Murray, Drawing Room, Electric Frog Press, Fieldnotes, Flatness, Folium, Forma, Good Press, InOtherWords, Lolli Editions, Marzipan, Matt's Gallery, Monitor Books, Montez Press, The Mosaic Rooms, Nieves, Onomatopee, Pagemasters, Pilot Press, Prototype Publishing, Rat Zine, Shanzhai Lyric, South London Gallery Bookshop, Southwark Park Galleries, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Strange Attractor Press, Supporting Material, Think Big Read Library, TLTRPreß, Tom Pope, Worms Magazine.
Music selected by
Laila Majid
Rene Matić
Abbas Zahedi
With food from
Teo’s Pizza
Presse Books
Instead of a commission or stall fee, tables are offered for free to invite both emerging and established practitioners in art publishing. Publishers who were unable to join in person were invited to send books to be sold at the Forma stall, with 40% of proceeds going towards the programming.
Access information
The fair will be situated on the ground floor with a wheelchair accessible toilet. Peveril Gardens is located on the rooftop with a lift available on request.
When booking your ticket, please consider making a donation to support the programming and overall fair costs.