Duplicate Publishing Fair returns to Eastside Projects bringing together artists, illustrators, zine makers and small-press publishers from Birmingham and beyond to congregate for two-days of DIY and indie publishing activity and distribution. The fair will welcome over 50 exhibitors in 2025 and a communal table will allow many more to share and sell their work.
Over the two days, a programme of free talks and workshops will invite people to explore self-publishing and to get involved. The fair is free to attend and open to all. The fair attracted over 700 people in 2024 and this year we’re hoping to make it even bigger!
2025 Exhibitors:
Exhibitors: Here is Jonny, PHOTOMAFIA, theft shrubbery and artforlivv, Alisha Lucia Davidson, Crude Futures, Andromeda Zines, Jessika Green, Peakrill Press, ossa prints, Practising Empathy in Mirrors, Two Friends and Their Table, UUendy Lau (UU), Lunchtime for the Wild Youth, Sayo Senoo, Yifan Hu, Shazleen Khan, Elly Bazigos & Kai Reynolds, Iliadtea, Persehouse Press, Qian-hui Yu, Juneau Projects, Sarah Gillespie, COPY, Evan Androutsopoulos BCU Photography RFK Subseri Elliot Hanks Illustration The Little Prints Lucy Roberts Pittville Press, Hannah Lee Miller, Burley Fisher Community Press, Coventry University, BLOOD ORANGE ZINE, Silly Dogs Brunch Club, Buku-Buku, Theadora + Zuzia + Ami, Physical Interface, ArtHole, Queer Out Loud, Kiosk, Edie Woolf, SEEMAWORLD, Seedlings of Kun, PageMasters, Famicon Express, BUNNY BISSOUX, tallfingerpress, Luke Humphries & George Manson, Eric Monk-Steel, Book Works, Ideas Loading, Sammy Borras and Sarah Fogg, @JREATP, Rachel Littlewood, Lydia Davies, Jack Lewdjaw, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Strike Design Studio, Alice Li, Yat Sze + Ashley Lo + Quail Wang, HMM TV, Rabbits Road Press, BCU Illustration.
2025 Workshops:
Block Print your own Bandanna Friday 5-6pm Free - sign up on the day at the Duplicate info desk Block print your own bandanna with artist Natasha Taheem. All materials provided.
Make a Badge Friday 6.30-7.30 Free - sign up on the day at the Duplicate info desk Join illustrator Georgia Chapman for a collage badge making workshop.
Drawing from Life: Documenting Duplicate Saturday 1-2pm Free - sign up on the day at the Duplicate info desk Join illustrator Baljinder Kaur to learn more about drawing from life and have a go yourself by documenting Duplicate Fair in this one-hour drawing workshop.
Zine Workshop: Making Monsters Saturday 3-4pm Free - sign up on the day at the Duplicate info desk Learn how to use colour paper and watercoulor textures to make a mini collage zine of monsters with artist and illustrator Yifan Hu.
Duplicate was started in 2019 by Gareth Proskourine-Barnett, Sofia Niazi and BAAAD Press.