Enfolded Journeys – exhibition
- Date: Tuesday 3 June 2025
- Location: Off-campus
- Interval: Every day
- Until: Saturday 14 June 2025
- Cost: Free exhibition – open to all
Enfolded Journeys is an open call touring exhibition of 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.
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.
Coming together, these artists’ books will 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.
Emilija Pliaukštaitė, Stepping through the Boundary, Digital photomontage, 2025.
Venue
Tourist Information Centre
Moot Hall
Boroughgate
Appleby-in-Westmorland
Cumbria CA16 6XE
Opening times
Open daily from 10am to 3pm (closed Sundays).
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 (3-14 June 2025)
- DunoonMOCA (12 July-2 August 2025)
- Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster (May-July 2026)
- Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (September 2026)
Further dates will be announced in due course.
For more information, please email Chris Taylor at C.A.Taylor@leeds.ac.uk.
Image
Batool Showgi, A Visual Reflection on Displacement, Textile and stitching, 2025.