Wild Pansy Press

The Wild Pansy Press is a collective art practice and small publishing house, based in the School of Fine Art at Leeds University which has built up a considerable catalogue of books and projects, often linking a publication to an exhibition in ways which extend and confound the usual notions of a catalogue. WPP is actively developing partnerships with other groups to build a network of practitioners who explore and advance publication (in its widest sense) as both a distributional strategy and medium of practice. WPP was set up in 1995 by Chris Taylor and Adrian Rifkin; Adrian has moved on to, among other things, run the M.A. in Art Writing at Goldsmith's, but Chris was joined in 2008 by artist and Leeds colleague Simon Lewandowski. Since 2010 we have been running the Wild Pansy Press Project Space as a public venue for experimental works which use the practices of reading, writing and publication as their medium and/or content.