A2 poster – ‘No One Is You And That Is Your Power’ by Ria

Celebrating the joint birthday of Swarthmore Education Centre (110 years) & Pyramid (30 years).

Posters are shipped in a cardboard tube.

The Sausage Atlas by Andrew Towse and Anne-Marie Atkinson

A beautiful and brilliant publication celebrating a great British lunch, an artistic collaboration and the cafes of Leeds.  ‘The Sausage Atlas’ was commissioned by Leeds 2023 as a sculptural installation but also led to this amazing book.

Anne-Marie Atkinson and Andrew Towse worked together for three years.  Every day, Andrew bought, photographed and ate a sausage sandwich for his lunch.

For the BEYOND Festival 2018 the two artists created a monumental sculpture containing images of 252 different individual sausage sandwiches displayed in 21 3D cubes. For the first week of the Festival, the 21 cubes were displayed together in Kirkgate Market food hall.  In the second half of the Festival Anne-Marie and Andrew took the individual cubes back to the cafes from which the sausage sandwiches had come.

The book includes photos and a map of cafes across Leeds, photos of the sculptural installation at Kirkgate Market and in the cafes and an essay by Anne-Marie reflecting on the artists’ shared experience.

The Adventure of Square, graphic novel by Liam Hirst

A graphic novel by Liam Hirst, in which Square, a two dimensional abstract shape escapes a world of forms, lines and traps, and explores the world, through dreams and nightmares, trying to find where a place fits.

Liam Hirst is a young artist with autism who struggled with art at school but has found his place in the world through creating artwork at Pyramid, Purple Patch and Mind the Gap.

‘BEYOND – Artists with Learning Disability Taking the Lead’ – book.

A year in the making, this beautiful and strictly limited boxed publication has been created by many artists with learning disabilities. It celebrates their work and asks the question ‘What else needs to happen before artists with learning disabilities can really take the lead?’.

There are only 100 copies of this publication in existence and each one is individually numbered.  It is packed with information and includes postcards packs, beer mats, newspapers, reports, plans, pictures and stories.

The full contents are;

Introductory Essay / Postcard pack by Liam Hirst, Riad Lake, William Stapleton, James Hill and Jenny Laskowsky.

‘In Our Own Words – Interviews with Artists with Learning Disabilities’.

‘No You Can’t, Yes I Can’ by Matthew Watson.

‘Moan Mats’ – beer mat and newspaper by Stephen Harvey.

‘The Sausage Atlas’ by Andrew Towse and Anne-Marie Atkinson.

‘Sausage Sandwiches, Art & Collaboration: A Serious Review’ by Anne-Marie Atkinson.

‘Can Everybody See It – A response to Arts Council England’s request for a consultation on their new 10-year strategy’ by Barbara Whiteley, James Hill, Julie Shackleton, Kelly Shine, Liam Hirst, Matthew Watson, Stephen Harvey, Tom Bailey.

‘The Adventure of Square’ graphic novel by Liam Hirst.

Pyramid Strategic Plan 2019-2023