Craig Atkinson - Publisher / Editor in Chief
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Café Royal Books is a publishing house I founded in 2005. Originally set up to disseminate my work quickly and inexpensively while avoiding the gallery system, having painted large abstracts and worked directly with galleries for many years prior.
I am interested in the printed image, mainly drawing or photography based, and how it responds to or creates a narrative with another unrelated printed image, adjacently placed. I am also interested in documenting collections, ephemera and found photographs / items.
I utilise simple, disposable materials and methods to create short-run publications, which are affordable and collectible. Generally Café Royal publications are printed as an edition of 50-100 and hand numbered. There is very occasionally a second edition printed but only where the first edition was of 50 or fewer. The second edition is generally un-numbered.
Café Royal Books are available to buy world-wide and have been collected by many major international museums, galleries and individual collectors. Details are below.
Stockists
ICA Gallery / UK
Analogue / UK
Mainlander / UK
Aye Aye Books / UK
Good Press / UK
Dashwood / USA
Domy / USA
Little Paper Planes / USA
Needles + Pens / USA
Quimbies / USA
Printed Matter / USA
Hard Workers Club / Australia
Art Park / Australia
Parts & Crafts / Australia
Book Of Days / Japan
Booklet Press / Japan
Motto Vancouver / Canada
Wiels / Brussels
Athenaeum / The Netherlands
Yvon Lambert / France
Die Nacht / Germany
Motto Berlin / Germany [+ distribution]
Mzin / Germany
Dama Aflita / Portugal
Payot / Switzerland
Hochparterre / Switzerland
Motto Zurich / Switzerland
Gallery Collections
Tate Gallery,London / UK
The National Art Library,Victoria and Albert Museum,London / UK
The British Library,London / UK
National Library of Scotland,Edinburgh / UK
Glasgow School of Art,Scotland / UK
Camberwell College of Arts Library,London / UK
London College of Communication Library / UK
University of the West of England / UK
Centre for Fine Print Research,Bristol / UK
Faculty of the Arts,University of Porto / Portugal
MoMA,NYC / USA
Barnard College Zine Library,NYC / USA
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa / Japan
Booklet Press / Japan
Bibliography
Cut+Paste, Laurence King
Behind The Zines,Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH &Co.KG,Germany
The Book Arts Newsletter,No. 66,International
Quotation Magazine,Toru Hachiga,Japan
Zine Culture,Phoenix Magazine,London UK
Elle Magazine,Interview,Korea
Artists Newsletter,Liverpool Biennial 2010,UK [written]
Exhibitions + Fairs
2012
Glasgow International Artists Book Fair
Leeds International Contemporary Artists Book Fair
2011
New York Artists Book Fair - represented by Motto Books
Offprint Paris
I’ve Zine The Darkness Dieschönestadt Gallery,Haale [Saale],Germany
PhotoIreland Festival,National Photographic Archive,Ireland
Krakow Photomonth,Krakow,Poland
International Photo Book Festival,Kassel,Germany
Flash Forward Festival,Boston,USA
Berlin Book Fair,Germany
Belfast Photo Festival,Ireland
Art As A Full Time Hobby, Aid &Abet,Cambridge,UK
Fanzines, Marguerite Duras Public Library,Paris
International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair,Leeds,UK
Fanzines,Teal Triggs / Thames &Hudson,The Well Gallery,London,UK
Fashion,Magazine Library,Shibuya-Ku,Tokyo,Japan
Dandy,Galeria Dama Aflita,Porto,Portugal
Intervento,La Casa Encendida,Madrid,Spain
Publish It Yourself,Masison d’art Bernard Anthonioz,Nogent Sur Marne,France
De Zines,Caja,Madrid,Spain
OK Parking Magazine Session,AksoNobel,Netherlands
Tiny Touring Round The World Exhibition,Bluecoat,Liverpool,UK
Zitrone Screenshow,Kulturpalast Linden,Hanover,Germany
Zurich Zine Sezession,Perla Mpde,Zurich
Zine’s Mate Tokyo Art Book fair,Vacant,Tokyo,Japan
Collective,Galeria Dama Aflita,Porto,Portugal
Zine Age Riot,Sea Cell Art Space,Byron Bay,Australia
Not One For Knocking On,Rogue Studios,Manchester,UK
Art Of Zines,Anno Domini,LA,CA,USA
Leaf + Signal,The Bridge,Virginia,USA
Manchester Artists’ Book Fair,MMU,UK
Manchester Independent Publishers’ Fair + Exhibition,Picadilly,Manchester
2009
Invasion Invasão,Galeria Dama Aflita,Porto,Portugal [Solo Show]
Climate For Change,FACT,Liverpool,UK
Plats,International Arts Centre,Leipzig,Germany
12th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair,Leeds,UK
Small Press,Ffotogallery,Cardiff,UK
UK DIY,Turnpike Gallery,Leigh,UK
Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair 2009,A Foundation,Liverpool,UK
2008
Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair 2008,Liverpool,UK
Fundraiser,85 Gallery,Antwerp,Belgium
Hit The Books artists’ book fair,Belgium
Lectures,Workshops and Residencies
2011
Artist in Residence,Extrapool,Nijmegen,The Netherlands
Zines + Self Publishing,Tate Gallery, Liverpool,UK
2010
Self Publishing + Illustration,Cheltenham Illustration Awards
2009
Drawing + Publishing,Birmingham IAD
Drawing,University of Porto –School of Fine Arts,Porto,Portugal
Zines + Self Publishing,Tate Liverpool,UK
2008
Drawing and Self Publishing,University of Central Lancashire,Preston,UK
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