Artists Making Artists’ Books
A panel of artists who approach bookmaking and publishing in different ways, as part of and alongside their art practices. Artists Hamja Ahsan, Eleni Papazoglou and Nicole Wermers will discuss their overlapping relationships with books and artmaking, and how publishing formats, writing styles, and sculpture can be put to work in artists’ books.
Hamja Ahsan is an award-winning artist, writer, curator and activist based in London. He is author of the book Shy Radicals: Anti-systemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017, Book Works), recently adapted into a film and translated into multiple languages. He was awarded the Grand Prize at Ljubljana Biennial 2019 for the artwork Aspergistan Referendum. He co-founded DIY Cultures 2013–2017, the UK’s largest festival of zines and creative activism. He was shortlisted for the Liberty human rights award 2013 for the Free Talha campaign against extradition under the war on terror. He is part of the editorial collective of Asylum magazine, the radical mental health magazine. He has recently presented work at Documenta 15 with the Halal Fried Chicken project, which he is currently developing into his forthcoming book Radical Chicken. He is currently working on Zine Mela – the UK's first South Asian DIY Cultures festival at WIP Space.
Eleni Papazoglou is a Greek artist, designer and educator living and working in London. Through assemblage, design, writing and pedagogy, their practice observes overlooked waste produced by language, labour and commerce; the discarded detritus of subsisting within late-stage capitalism. Recent projects include Half a second or less [solo], Soup Gallery (London, 2025), Solo Hôtel [duo], Aperto Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris, 2025), Bearings [duo] (London, 2025). Eleni lectures at the London College of Communication, UAL.
For over two decades, Nicole Wermers has explored the physical and structural hierarchies of urban space in relation to the bodies – both present and absent – subjected by them, drawing on references from art history and vernacular culture. Working primarily with sculpture, photography and collage, Nicole Wermers draws our attention to the overlooked gestures and rituals performed in urban settings. Centring her practice on the public realm and its interactions with the female body, Wermers combines references to art history with modern surfaces, dissecting everyday design and its appropriation by consumer culture. Wermers was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015.
Hamja Ahsan is an award-winning artist, writer, curator and activist based in London. He is author of the book Shy Radicals: Anti-systemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017, Book Works), recently adapted into a film and translated into multiple languages. He was awarded the Grand Prize at Ljubljana Biennial 2019 for the artwork Aspergistan Referendum. He co-founded DIY Cultures 2013–2017, the UK’s largest festival of zines and creative activism. He was shortlisted for the Liberty human rights award 2013 for the Free Talha campaign against extradition under the war on terror. He is part of the editorial collective of Asylum magazine, the radical mental health magazine. He has recently presented work at Documenta 15 with the Halal Fried Chicken project, which he is currently developing into his forthcoming book Radical Chicken. He is currently working on Zine Mela – the UK's first South Asian DIY Cultures festival at WIP Space.
Eleni Papazoglou is a Greek artist, designer and educator living and working in London. Through assemblage, design, writing and pedagogy, their practice observes overlooked waste produced by language, labour and commerce; the discarded detritus of subsisting within late-stage capitalism. Recent projects include Half a second or less [solo], Soup Gallery (London, 2025), Solo Hôtel [duo], Aperto Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris, 2025), Bearings [duo] (London, 2025). Eleni lectures at the London College of Communication, UAL.
For over two decades, Nicole Wermers has explored the physical and structural hierarchies of urban space in relation to the bodies – both present and absent – subjected by them, drawing on references from art history and vernacular culture. Working primarily with sculpture, photography and collage, Nicole Wermers draws our attention to the overlooked gestures and rituals performed in urban settings. Centring her practice on the public realm and its interactions with the female body, Wermers combines references to art history with modern surfaces, dissecting everyday design and its appropriation by consumer culture. Wermers was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015.
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