Whether you're a longtime admirer of Cutts and Van Horn's work or new to the world of small press and artists publishing, this is a rare opportunity to hear from practitioners at the heart of the field.

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SCHEDULE

11am – 12.30pm: In-conversation with Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn

Followed by Q&A

Lunch

2pm – 3.30pm: Panel discussion -  Followed by Q&A

The importance of artists books, publishing as art practice and the book as art object

Panel: Sean Lynch (Artist & Askeaton Contemporary Arts), Gustavo Grandal Montero (Library Collections, TATE, London) and Sarah Long (artist and writer)

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MEET OUR PANELLISTS

‍Simon Cutts (b. Derbyshire, UK 1944), a writer, artist, designer and founder of Coracle Press and Gallery, is well-known in the field of artist books. As poet, artist and publisher, he has made books since the mid-1960s, firstly with Stuart Mills as Tarasque Press and then as Coracle from 1975, firstly in London, and then from many bases, and eventually in Ireland from 1996. His two critical books Some Forms of Availability 2007 and The Small Press Model 2025, deal with his theoretical approach to publishing.

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Erica Van Horn (b. New Hampshire, USA 1954) is an American artist (and writer, editor, printer, bookmaker, and publisher) long transplanted to Ireland where she runs Coracle Press with her husband Simon Cutts. Her outsider's acumen is trained on the minutiae of daily life, collecting visual and textual details of what is often overlooked or seemingly insignificant. The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn, was shown at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale in 2010, where there is an archive of her books and papers.

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Sean Lynch (b. Kerry, 1978) lives and works in Askeaton, County Limerick. He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015, and prominent solo exhibitions of his sculptures, installations and videos have been organised at the Edinburgh Art Festival; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Rose Art Museum, Boston; Modern Art Oxford and Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin amongst others. A recent public artwork, Distant Things Appear Suddenly Near was realised in Melbourne, Australia. He has held fellowships and been a visiting professor at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, and is a graduate of the Stadelschule, Frankfurt. Alongside Michele Horrigan, he frequently works at Askeaton Contemporary Arts, an artist-led residency, commissioning and roving exhibition initiative originating in rural Limerick since 2006.

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Gustavo Grandal Montero is an art librarian and curator, currently Library Collections and Engagement Manager at Tate. His research interests span contemporary art documentation and publishing, particularly artists’ publications, and the relations between experimental literary and visual arts from the 1950s to the 1990s, with a focus on Concrete poetry. He has contributed to a range of journals, including Artist's Book Yearbook, Print Quarterly and Blue Notebook, and monographs: Making new worlds: Li Yuan Chia & friends (Kettle’s Yard, 2023), Swiss artists' books (Walther Koenig, 2022), Dom Sylvester Houédard (Ridinghouse, 2017), The handbook of art and design librarianship (Facet, 2017), Please come to the show (Occasional Papers, 2014), Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter (Occasional Papers, 2012). Gustavo is Editor of the Art Libraries Journal (CambridgeUniversity Press). He has curated several exhibitions, most recently ‘Documentor artwork?’ at Tate Britain (2022) and ‘Astro-poems and Vertical Group Exercises: Concrete poetry at CSA’ at Chelsea Space, London (2018).

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‍Sarah Long is an artist based at Backwater Artist Group in Cork City. Her practice focuses on suppressed female archetypes, the politics of representation, nationhood and myth through the lens of feminism. She creates autofiction which she translates across painting, installation, performance and writing. Recent solo exhibitions include Triskel Arts Centre (2026) and South Tipperary Arts Centre(2025). Recent group shows include Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre (2026), STARLING (2025) and Pallas Projects (2024-25). Her artist publication, I'm never going to be able to sleep out here (2026), and her multi-dimensional novella, W/w (2024), are published by Bloomers.