Room&Book Art Book Fair

Room&Book gathers 18 of the best specialist bookshops and dealers in the UK to present a collection of iconic art, photography, fashion and design publications from the last 30 years.

Writer and novelist Michael Bracewell presents a lecture, Flair to Pop to Zoom and Back Again - a stroll through the 50 years of the Style Press.

Join us to celebrate the launch of the zine version of Armband for Stoke Newington 8 publication and the accompanying Ecstatic Peace Library edition with Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz.

To accompany the inaugural Room&Book Art Book Fair, the ICA have invited an esteemed panel of speakers to discuss what makes a book ‘rare’ in the 21st Century.

To coincide with Tauba Auerbach’s first UK solo exhibition at the ICA and the inaugural Room&Book Art Book Fair, the artist gives a talk on her current interests, including her self-publishing practice as Diagonal Press.

Alasdair McLellan’s Ultimate Clothing Company captures the curiosities and romantic notions of his youth in North England.

Claire de Rouen Books launch two new books from photographer Gareth McConnell's imprint Sorika, Looking for Looking for Love by Tom Wood, and A New Concise Reference Dictionary of Art by Neal Brown, who will be present for a signing.

To accompany Room&Book Art Book Fair the ICA hosts an introductory workshop offering practical advice and discussing common bookbinding techniques, as well as exploring the art of bookbinding and examples of contemporary book arts.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Impossible Utopias, the first book by model, actress and social entrepreneur Lily Cole.

Artist Bruno Zhu reads excerpts from his print-on-demand book Facsimile I, tracks the re-blogging of a single image posted by Zhu to his Tumblr page.

We will read an art-based publication back-to-back and use this as a platform to explore contemporary issues of 'writing as practice', art publishing and art writing in a broader realm.

Artist AA Bronson discusses his exhibition Queer Zines with its co-curator Philip Aarons.

Artist and photographer Mark Lebon is in conversation with artist and writer Neal Brown, discussing his work and early publishing projects.

Artist Bruno Zhu reads excerpts from Facsimile II, a mystery fiction novel.