I haven’t been as timely as I would have liked with my third blog instalment on my trip to the Lake District, but will aim to have the post up soon. In the meantime I recently visited Salford Zine library’s exhibition at Salford Art Gallery. Here are a few thoughts I had on it, apologies if you've seen this already.
I recently had the chance to check out the exhibition at Salford Art Gallery of the collection of Salford Zine Library which is usually at Islington Mill. I must say that I didn't realise photography wasn't allowed until midway through visiting, so if I should remove any images let me know, I just thought it would be nice to take photos.
The exhibition is set over two levels on the stairs which I thought was really nice space. Zines and artwork from zines were displayed on walls, and upstairs the exhibition film was projected onto a wall, and there were some seats and books about zines. If you had the time you could really sit and read for hours, which you are encouraged to do:
There is a film to accompany the exhibition which is actually quite a long and well put together film with input from loads of other people who make zines which is really great. It gives an insight into others experiences of making zines and self-publishing in general. I found myself learning new things from others aswell as nodding my head in agreement at a lot of the opinions on self publishing.
I'd recommend checking it out if you can and you have plenty of time to do so as the exhibition runs until January, I found the presentation really accessible aswell, so that people who are unfamiliar with zines got a great experience of a varied collection of them. I did donate my zines to the exhibition but couldn't see them on display, so hopefully they are safe and sound at Islington Mill. It's certainly a good exhibition to take friends and family to if they are confused about zines, or find them odd for any reason.
Going from images of the Library itself I think this exhibition is probably a small snippet of their collection and reason enough to visit the library itself which looks amazing, I'll definitely make a point of doing so when I'm next in Manchester.
For a more interactive idea about zines, check out the video they made prior to the exhibition:
I recently had the chance to check out the exhibition at Salford Art Gallery of the collection of Salford Zine Library which is usually at Islington Mill. I must say that I didn't realise photography wasn't allowed until midway through visiting, so if I should remove any images let me know, I just thought it would be nice to take photos.
The exhibition is set over two levels on the stairs which I thought was really nice space. Zines and artwork from zines were displayed on walls, and upstairs the exhibition film was projected onto a wall, and there were some seats and books about zines. If you had the time you could really sit and read for hours, which you are encouraged to do:
There is a film to accompany the exhibition which is actually quite a long and well put together film with input from loads of other people who make zines which is really great. It gives an insight into others experiences of making zines and self-publishing in general. I found myself learning new things from others aswell as nodding my head in agreement at a lot of the opinions on self publishing.
I'd recommend checking it out if you can and you have plenty of time to do so as the exhibition runs until January, I found the presentation really accessible aswell, so that people who are unfamiliar with zines got a great experience of a varied collection of them. I did donate my zines to the exhibition but couldn't see them on display, so hopefully they are safe and sound at Islington Mill. It's certainly a good exhibition to take friends and family to if they are confused about zines, or find them odd for any reason.
Going from images of the Library itself I think this exhibition is probably a small snippet of their collection and reason enough to visit the library itself which looks amazing, I'll definitely make a point of doing so when I'm next in Manchester.
For a more interactive idea about zines, check out the video they made prior to the exhibition:
For more photographs of the exhibition check out the blog post at Salford Zine Library's blog.
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