Join us for the launch of GLUE, the ICA’s new artist book fair, bringing together over 70 publishers for a weekend of exhibitions, talks and workshops.

Celebrating artists, publishers and DIY book makers working across visual arts and contemporary culture, GLUE brings together creative practices that span disciplines and genres. Alongside a vibrant book fair, the weekend features a special exhibition and public programme that champions the role of artist-led ecosystems and communities in nourishing creative practice, and shaping urgent and independent publishing today.

Taking place across the ICA, the weekend programme features an exhibition highlighting photography's complicity and media bias against Palestinians by Hot Potato, founded by Naoise O’Keeffe, alongside new work exploring ongoing gentrification in Shepherd's Bush Market by London-based photographer Sana Badri. Drop-in workshops include bookbinding and zine-making with Toe Press, a collective led by Tati El Mallah and Marci Lewis, and a self-portrait workshop with Different Gravy Studio, run by Alex Picasso and Louie Stewart.

The weekend talks programme tackles urgent conversations, including social housing with Verso, new artistic and curatorial approaches with Valiz, artist readings with Montez Press, queer publishing and zine-making with PRIM, and the launch of Holes, the latest issue of Effects Journal. There will also be a special ICA archive sale of iconic film posters, rare zines, and other resources unearthed from our archives.

We hope you’ll join us for a weekend of conversation, new practice, critical exchange and connection. 

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1000 Words  
24˚36˚ 
51 Personae  
ACV Magazine   
Adam Mundzic   
Ana Blumenkron   
Antenne Books  
Au Courant Studio  
Baron  
Blaft Publications 
Bleet!  
Bona Varda  
Book Works   
BOOKS Peckham  
border_less press  
Bricks from the Kiln
Cel  
CentreCentre 
Cultural Traffic 
Doesn’t Exist   
Effects  
Fieldnotes   
Fiontán Moran   
Four Corners Books   
Group Matter 
Guest Editions   
Guy Bigland   
HELA Press  
HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!   
ICA Creatives 
In Between Knots  
JNG&Friends  
KT Press 
La chaise jaune publications 
Matt’s Gallery   
miłość and bruise studio  
Monitor  
Montez Press   
Archidustrial Ltd.  
NOIA Magazine & Ceci n'est pas Hackney 
Nuclear Soup and Tess Foley    
Oval Press   
Overwhelm Press   
Peer Matters  
Pluto   
PRIM  
Prototype   
Public Knowledge Books  
Pushkin House   
RA & Olly  
RCA Media Studies 
Reference.Point   
Roberts Print   
SEEMAWORLD  
SERCHIA Gallery   
Set Margins’  
Shado Magazine   
SMUT Press  
SPILLLL Studio  
Sports Banger   
Stack  
STIGMATA  
Strange Attractor Press   
Strike Design Studio   
Studio Defa   
Konstantin Zhukov  
Studio Pangolin   
TALKER  
The Feminist Library
The Photocopy Club   
The Rock Retreat: HOME   
The Rolling Drum   
The Sandwich Club   
The Wild Parlour  
Tummy Ache   
Valiz  
Verso  
Yunqi Peng   
Zigzag Collective   
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13 & 14 September 2025

All events are free to attend, but we encourage you to book in advance. Please consider making a donation to support ICA to be a home for the next generation of artists.
 
Book Fair
13 & 14 Sep, 12 – 7pm
Stage, Upper Gallery + Snug  

Exhibition: Sign Up by Hot Potato
13 & 14 Sep, 12 – 11pm
Lower Gallery

Exhibition: Plot 9 by Sana Badri
13 & 14 Sep, 12 – 11pm
Lower Gallery

Display: LCC X ICA New Makers Prize with Finley Gilzene
13 & 14 Sep, 12 – 11pm
Concourse

Display: Distance by Suzie Howell
13 & 14 Sep, 12 – 11pm
Concourse

Workshop: Self Portraiture with Different Gravy
Sat 13 Sep, 12 – 7pm
Reading Room

Talk: Verso – Jessica Field and Holly Smith on Britain’s Social Housing
Sat 13 Sep, 1 – 2:30pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms 

Talk: Valiz – Eva Fotiadi on New Artistic and Curatorial Practice
Sat 13 Sep, 2:30 – 4pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms 

Workshop: PRIM – Queer Publishing and Zine Making
Sat 13 Sep, 4 – 7pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms   

Workshop: Sunday Zine Club with Toe Press
Sun 14 Sep, 12 – 7pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms 

Talk: Censorship in the Arts with Hot Potato
Sun 14 Sep, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms

Talk: An Afternoon with Montez Press
Sun 14 Sep, 2:30 – 4pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms

Launch: Effects 4 – Holes + Q&A 
Sun 14 Sep, 4:30 – 6pm
Nash and Brandon Rooms  

LCC X ICA New Makers Prize with Finley Gilzene
 
Continuing the exploration of themes explored in his ongoing body of work Jafaican, Finey Gilzene sheds light on hidden practices of marginalisation in contemporary society using his chosen medium of cyanotypes and moving image. Finley Gilzene was selected as the ICA x LCC New Makers prize for recent graduates in 2025. 

Distance by Suzie Howell
 
A special presentation of London-based artist Suzie Howell’s ongoing body of work, Distance, bringing together a newly designed handmade book, a poster and darkroom prints.