Bound Art Book Fair

Bound Art Book Fair returns to the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester on the weekend of 30 November-1 December 2024.

The fair will feature dozens of local and international publishers, artist presses and collectives, as well as a free public programme of talks, workshops and parties.



The Whitworth Art Gallery is family friendly, autism friendly, and fully accessible. There are assisted toilet facilities and gender-neutral toilets. Wheelchairs, hand-held portable stools and ear defenders are available for public use. The Grand Hall, which hosts our workshops, is fitted with hearing loops. There are baby changing areas and a family room.

Friday 29 Nov: Offsite opening parties 6.00-11.00pm
Saturday 30 Nov: 11.00am-5.00pm
Sunday 1 Dec: 10.00am-4.30pm

Exhibitors

20k and a dead sheep
51 Personae
ABC [Artists' Books Cooperative]
Above the Fold - Guzzle
amargo editions
Anna Corfa Isehayek
Anu Ambasna / CAMP! Publishing
Ash Hardman
AYFP / Emma Crabtree
Bibi Books
Black Lodge Press
Boggart Press
Book Works
BOOT Mag
Bully Classifieds
Callum Leo Hughes
Ceremony Press
Chris Alton & Amy Gough
Common Threads Press
COPY
CRAIC
Dilara Koz Editions
DR.ME/Waiting Room Press
Erin Jackson Raynes
Fistful of Books
Folium
Footfall
Four Corners Books
GULP magazine
HERESY
Holly Eliza Temple
HumDrumPress
Idiosynpress
James Unsworth
Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock
Jessie Churchill
Kawako Press
Lucy Roberts
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
madly awake
Manchester School of Art
Mini Mart Press
Morgan Ambler and Anson Johnston
Ndelap
New Dimension
object | multiple
OBOUT*
Out Of Place Books
PageMasters
Pendle Press
Practising Empathy in Mirrors
pre-leigh
Pseudo Press
Ra Bear & Pariah Press
Rear Window Editions
Rough Trade Books

Sam Batley

SEESAW
Xanthe Hutchinson
SepĂșlvedaFialho
Set Margins' publications
Sky Dair
Slimvolume
Social Pickle / Fermental Health / Not a Sausage
Soft Tofu Press
Stanley James Press
Stat
Sticky Fingers Publishing
Studio Public House
SU4IP
Surface Editions
Sweet Tooth
Tendencies Bulletin
Tenement Press
The Lemming
the modernist
The Photocopy Club / Photobook Cafe
THIS IS BOROUGH
TRANSREBELCOWBOY
VILLAGE
Xanthe Hutchinson
Zhangyue Ding
ZONE6
Find out more about our previous fairs in our Archive

Bound Art Book Fair's mission is to provide a platform for a diverse and international range of projects and exhibitors to share their work and reach new audiences, with a particular focus on those from the North of England. We build and sustain communities around print publishing practices whilst exploring the potential for expanded forms of publishing that engage or interact with performance, music, sculpture, fashion, moving image and activism. Bound also instigates interim projects generating new publications and commissions, and we have worked with partners including the Working Class Movement Library, Derby International Photography Festival, and Sounds from the Other City.

Bound Art Book Fair firmly opposes all forms of sexism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism and hyper-surveillance. We have a history of platforming under-represented and marginalised voices through our free public programmes, and have supported organisations that promote worker-led struggle, migrant's rights, decolonisation, and an end to cultures of incarceration. We believe that challenging systems of discrimination demands intersectionality and personal accountability. We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.