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PAGES 2025
by Peter Grant - 09:28 on 25 March 2025
On Friday March 21st and Saturday March 22nd 2025 "PAGES" opened its doors to the public, in the magnificent Leeds Art Gallery.
Organised by the indefatigible Chris Taylor, it was a very enjoyable event.
Greeted warmly by Chris and hailed by many of the other participants (we're now old friends some of us - meeting at Sunny Bank Mills, or in Edinburgh, Bristol or Glasgow) we each started to set up our stalls.
The public arrived at 11am - all seemingly bent on learning something extra about the Book Arts, adding to their store of knowledge, and asking all the right questions.
Saturday was much the same.
On Friday night the participants were invited to a private view (with a glass of wine) of an Artists Books exhibition on the subject of journeys at the Leeds Library in Commercial Street. Not to be confused with the Leeds library next to our "Pages" venue - this is another beautiful Victorian building complete with spiral staircase like the set of "My Fair Lady". Originally a private Library - it is still a subscription library, though open to the public for a short period each week.
"Pages" only happens every two years, and I hope I can be part of it in 2027.