Black Dogs Archive

Archive collection and exhibition, co-curated with Mick Welbourn for Leeds College of Art Library, 26th January - 27th March 2015. The Black Dogs’ Archive is an almost complete collection of all published material by the Black Dogs’ Collective of artists which formed in Leeds in 2003. The collective has worked with many different formats including exhibitions, participatory installations, public events and interventions, video, audio works and collaborative learning projects. The collective has also produced numerous publications over the past ten years including one off and limited editions. The publications are in variable formats including sheets of paper containing DIY ideas in screen printed boxes, audio artworks on vinyl records with 12” square books, perfect bound exhibition catalogues, saddle stitched quarterly magazines, newspapers and files of photocopies of confiscated items. The Archive forms a special collection within the Artists' Books Collection at Leeds College of Art Library. This exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of their very first publication, the first Black Dogs Almanac, in 2005.