Upstairs on the mezzanine floor of Matt’s Gallery, Nine Elms, London SW11, you’ll find an archival display: ‘Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press: artists’ books, artwork and ephemera, 1994–2025.’

You can read more about the background to Piece of Paper Press here. In short, it’s an artists’ book series that I founded in 1994. In that time I’ve published limited edition artists’ books by contributing artists and writers including Ian Bourn, Pavel Büchler, Peter Bunting, Barbara Campbell, Mikey Cuddihy, Stevie Deas, Joolz Denby, Tim Etchells, Stephanie Fawbert, Rose Frain, Jane Gifford, Bruce Gilchrist, Halford + Beard, M John Harrison, David Hayden, Christopher Hewitt, Steven Hull, Sharon Kivland, Liliane Lijn, Elizabeth Magill, Andrea Mason, Penny McCarthy, Susana Medina, Katharine Meynell, Michael Moorcock, Andrew Mottershead, Courttia Newland, James Pyman, Borivoj Radaković, Sheena Rose, Pete Smith, Gordana Stanišić, Selina Thompson, Suzanne Treister, Alison Turnbull, and Joanna Walsh – all of whom are represented in the display.

After a private view Sunday 26 January, the show opened this week, and runs to Sunday 23 March. It is the most comprehensive exhibition of Piece of Paper Press to date, and I really hope you can come along and see it.

Here’s how it looked the other evening, before it got really busy. As you can see, there are handling copies of many of the books:

And here are some close-ups of the vitrines (photos by old pal Scats, who kindly shared them with me). Every book in the series is represented in the display – often with never-before-seen artwork or correspondence…

To accompany the exhibition, there’s a free publication in Matt’s Gallery’s Q series, number Q14.1, in which Matt’s Deputy Director Tim Dixon interviews me about the project.

I think I’m correct in saying that this is the first time I have ever been interviewed about Piece of Paper Press since the project began in 1994, so don’t forget to pick up a copy! (It looks like this.)

I hope you enjoy ‘Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press’!

If you are able to visit, do please share thoughts and photos, tagging me, Matt’s Gallery and Piece of Paper Press if you can – it will really help us to spread the word!

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Thank you!

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