Exhibition
Arachne Press: Ten Years of Book Cover Art
19 Jan 2023 – 15 Feb 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 10 Stockwell Street
- Greenwich
- London
England - SE10 9BD
- United Kingdom
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- 129: North Greenwich – Greenwich 177: Thamesmead – Peckham 180: Belvedere – Lewisham 188: North Greenwich – Russell Square 199: Canada Water – Catford 286: Sidcup – Greenwich 386: Blackheath – Woolwich Arsenal
- Cutty Sark DLR station (two minutes)
- The closest train station to Stockwell Street is Greenwich Station (a four-minute walk). There is also a regular boat service offered by Thames Clippers which stops next to the Old Royal Naval College (the older university campus), near to the Heritage Gallery. It runs from Westminster and stops at other locations along the route, taking around 35 minutes in total.
South London publisher Arachne Press celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2022. As a part of the celebrations, the publisher is hosting an art exhibition that showcases some of its most striking book covers from the past decade.
About
Right from the start the intention was that Arachne’s books would be beautiful, and that where possible, artists would be used, and the cover image would wrap all the way round the book.
Now, ten years on, Stephen Lawrence Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Arachne Press book covers alongside the original works of art that were licenced or commissioned to create the cover.
This event will celebrate successful and creative collaborations between the publisher and a wide variety of talented artists, working across different media.
Featured artists will include Kevin Threlfall, Fiona Humphrey, Gordy Wright, Paul Summers, Camille Smethwick, Komal Madar and Rachel Marsh.
