LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th March at The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds, LS10 1JQ.
19th Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair
4 February, 2016Waterloo & Elsewhere
12 November, 2015Waterloo & Elsewhere by Peter Overton
A collection of photographs with accompanying captions that build into a verbal-visual poem. With 34 full-colour and 2 black-and-white plates printed on Chorus Lux Silk paper, and an introduction by Krzysztof Fijalkowski.
‘Peter Overton’s images of abandoned objects belong in a tradition of the documentation of detritus and material affray running from Atget’s pictures of early twentieth-century rag pickers in the zone on the outskirts of Paris, through the work of Czech photographers such as Emila Medková and Alois Nožička exploring waste grounds and marginal sites.’ – from the introduction, Down Is Up, by Krzysztof Fijalkowski.
In a limited edition of 100 numbered copies only.
42 pages – 17cm x 17cm square format – November 2015 – ISBN 978-1-906238-03-2
Price including postage & packing:
UK £8.00
Europe £10.50
USA & Rest of the World £11.00
Buy online at www.surrealisteditions.co.uk
The Little Shop of Magic – 116 Gallery
21 September, 2015
Members of Leeds Surrealist Group are participating in the exhibition ‘The Little Shop of Magic’, organised by Wedgwood Steventon, in Gallery 116, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Manchester Artists Book Fair 2015
13 September, 2015LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at the Artists’ Book Market on Friday 16th & Saturday 17th October at the Manchester School of Art’s Holden Gallery.
For further information see the MABF website here.
The Baltic Artists’ Book Market – July 2015
3 July, 2015LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at the Artists’ Book Market on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th July at The Baltic, Gateshead.
For further information see The Baltic
Mike Peters
11 June, 2015
Mike Peters 1947 – 2015
We are very sad to have to report the loss of our friend and comrade, Mike Peters, who died of heart failure on the morning of Wednesday, 3rd June. Mike had been a member of the Leeds Surrealist Group since 2005, but a long-time conspirator and fellow traveller before then; indeed, since our group was formed in 1994. Some of us knew him as an editor of and contributor to the influential Here & Now magazine; others as students at the institution in whose side he had been a thorn; and still others simply as a welcome critical presence in the political life of those radical milieus growing up outside Socialist or Anarchist orthodoxies.
A man whose creativity was rarely burdened by convention, Mike could always be relied upon to approach Surrealism as something grounded as much in humour as in poetic and intellectual enquiry. Indeed, despite occasionally doing battle with his own black dogs, he was the most stridently anti-miserablist of us all.
For a couple of years after joining the group, Mike would complain that he was unable to encounter ‘found objects’. One day, for reasons never elaborated, the dam burst and our meetings became coves where vast quantities of flotsam would collect after drifting in on Mike’s tide. Many of these objects would result in fascinating processes of collective enquiry, whilst others would exert a glamour upon him so mysteriously subjective that it would be almost impossible for the rest of us to penetrate. It is pleasing to think of the mixture of pride and child-like wonder that characterised him in this period, and the particular joyous and very honest vulnerability that Mike would bring to the group, challenging the rest of us to meet it. Yet, even in the context of such generosity, we all of us should have liked decades more in which to further appreciate the complex aggregation of compulsions, desires, plans, and peccadilloes of which our friend was composed.
PHOSPHOR – issue number 4
17 March, 2015
72 pages • B5 format • ISSN 1755-0009
texts, poems, images, collective games on the theme of
THE ONEIRIC CITY
for full details see the Surrealist Editions website
18th Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair
10 February, 2015LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March at The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds, with a launch event from 6pm on Friday, 6th March.
For further information: www.leedsartbookfair.com and thetetley.org
The Hunt For The Object Of Desire
22 May, 2014Leeds Surrealist Group will be participating in an international exhibition organized by La Liaison Surréaliste à Montréal at Gallerie Espace, 4844 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec, running from 5th to 17th June 2014.
Further information can be found here Surréalisme Montréal.
“How can even the most powerful kaleidoscope reflect all the shimmerings that are enameled upon the multicoloured flesh of these vast lands that desire reveals to us? And from the core of this fire we’ll be able to melt under the magnetic characteristics of its inflorescence? It is carried by the mark of its teeth, and by the pressure of its lips, that we will feverishly abandon ourselves to its vertigo; but how could we preserve such an enchantment, while Reason wastes its energy in eating away at any real life force, making us abandon what makes each individual a wholly unique being, capable of evoking the voluptuous aims of Love and Liberty?!”
– from the introductory text to the exhibition catalogue
17th Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair
18 February, 2014LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair on Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th March at The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds, with a launch event from 6pm on Friday, 7th March.
For further information: www.leedsartbookfair.com and thetetley.org
