Enfolded Journeys – Doncaster edition

Enfolded Journeys is an open call touring exhibition of 28 new artists’ books made in response to themes suggested by the title.

The themes relate to travel, displacement, geographies and borders, and migration in recent times and in the past as the effects of such movements of peoples, whether compelled or voluntary, may resound through generations.

Coming together, these artists’ books exemplify the story telling, documenting of experience and the sharing characteristics of the book, which have always provided a self-contained, intimate yet accessible and mobile form.

Furthermore, an artist’s book may also involve an encounter that is distinctive to the medium; one that encompasses a shift of expectations of what a book is or does.

Curated by John McDowall and Chris Taylor – and co-selected with artists Karen Babayan and Sophie Loss – the first iteration of this exhibition opened at The Leeds Library on Commercial Street to coincide with the PAGES Artists’ Book Fair in March/April 2025.

The touring exhibition provides an opportunity and contextualised platform for 50 individual artists and makers, to show their new book works to varied audiences across the UK and abroad.

At DANUM, Taylor and McDowall have worked with Art Curator Neil McGregor in selecting works from the permanent collection to accompany the display of books; works by artists who themselves came to the UK from other places.

These include paintings, sculptures and prints by Horace Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Jacob Kramer, Paula Rego and Stella Steyn.

Danuta Dąbrowska, PLACE NOT PLACE, 2025.

Venue

Danum Gallery, Library and Museum
Waterdale
Doncaster
DN1 3BZ

Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

More information

This international open call (including artists from China, France, Germany, Italy and Puerto Rico) has developed out of the Shifting Borders: A Journey to the Centre of Our World(s) exhibition curated by Chris Taylor and held in the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at the University of Leeds in 2023.

Venues for the Enfolded Journeys touring exhibition include:

• The Leeds Library (18 to 24 March & 31 March to 3 April 2025)
• Appleby-in-Westmorland TIC (3 to 4 June 2025)
• DunoonMOCA (12 July to 2 August 2025)
• Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster (May to July 2026)
• Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (7 to 13 September 2026)

Further dates will be announced in due course.

For more information, please email Chris Taylor at C.A.Taylor@leeds.ac.uk.

Feature mage

Corinne Welch, Diaspora, 2025.