The Half-Price Winter Sale Is Still On
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Our Winter Sale continues with 50% off our entire back catalogue (everything published before 2024), including some rare and never to be reprinted editions. Prices start from just 50p, and all proceeds from sales go straight back into our programme so it’s a great way to support our work and get some radical and experimental artists’ books at the same time.
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Saborami a Burley Fisher Book of 2024
“So says: This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit and three-dimensional practice of multimedia artist Cecilia Vicuña. Turn it one way, and Saborami is a fascinating insight into a 1970s UK counterculture of kitchen-table publishing, radical exhibition spaces and internationalist protests, of which Vicuña became a key part when she found herself in exile from Chile after the Western-backed 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, whose youth cultural corps Vicuña had been part of. Turn it another way, and it’s a mature artist and writer reflecting back on her early work and its continuities through her subsequent practice as an unraveller of colonial and patriarchal language. Turn it another, and it’s a testament to a thriving contemporary artbook publishing scene that celebrates its political and artistic communities, legacies of radical protest, and creation of beautiful, beautiful, significant books.”
Thanks to Burley Fisher and So for their support!
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The Touch Report
Katrina Palmer
‘In Palmer’s writing, we encounter an ethics of presence and form that is deeply moving, completely and unbearably real.’ – Bhanu Kapil, author of How To Wash A Heart
“[A] deeply moving work nestled in the violent maze that is the National Gallery.” – Frank Wasser
Invited to be the 2024 National Gallery Artist in Residence Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report draws on research made during this year, and forms the centre of the resulting exhibition of the same name.
In a room stripped of the paintings that usually hang in that part of the gallery, Palmer has created a reading room. You’re invited to read The Touch Report work there, experiencing the violence, subjugation and darkness of the paintings. Written in sparse, urgent fragments that invite closer reading, The Touch Report, turns the reader’s gaze into the dark, to question our notions of ‘civilisation’.
The Touch Report is on view at the National Gallery, in Room 17a, 11 December 2024 – 2 March 2025. Admission free. More information here.
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