Brighton Art Book Fair

Phoenix Art Space: Main Gallery, Brighton          

7-8 December 2024

Saturday-Sunday 12-5pm

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural Brighton Art Book Fair will take place at Phoenix Art Space on 7 & 8 December 2024. This tabletop fair will bring a diverse and dynamic mix of some of the best international artists’ book publishers to audiences in Brighton.

Artists’ books are artworks that utilise the form of the book. They take many forms; some might push expectations of what a book itself can look like, whilst others might have a unique or quirky subject matter. Artists’ books could be everything from one-of-a-kind objects to small editions, self-published zines or beautifully collated photobooks.

For this fair in early December, Phoenix will welcome a global selection of small press publishers and international artists to our main gallery space and visitors can browse a wide selection of different publications. To give a quick flavour of the variety of participants, we’re thrilled to be including Book Works, an organisation dedicated to publishing books by emerging artists, alongside acclaimed photobooks publisher Jane & Jeremy, Korean illustrator and animator KIMOK and zine publisher The Photocopy Club.

The fair will also host a curated table put together by Phoenix Art Space which will include books we love from carefully selected artists including Emily Speed, Marcelina Amelia as well as a collection of sold-out limited-edition books kindly donated to us by our patron, artist David Shrigley.

Alongside the fair, Phoenix will be running a free bookbinding event for families on Saturday from 11am-1pm. Find out more.

Entrance to the fair costs £2

Image: ‘That Fire Over There’, by Prem Sahib published by Book Works (2023) Photo: Louisa Bailey