Aidan Winterburn

An essay film that attempts to animate the inanimate. A filmic portrait of the brick, as both building material, as art, architecture and as a wider signified for a post-wr society in general. It is a city symphony in microcosm as well as a portrait of my father.

Design, essay and publication of a book of paintings and drawings by artist Adam Stone responding to the archive at the Merrion Centre in Leeds. Published by redundant span.

the fourth in a series of publications/ zines that are interested in combinations of text/ typography and imagery that combine in complementary and conflicting ways to achieve a kind of fugal effect. the zines/ chapbooks are published on a bi-monthly basis by redundant span. they are available both in shops/ cafes and bars around Leeds for free and I have a subscription list who receive the free publications every other month

the third of a series of publications and zines that attempt to give visual form to my writing. i am interested here in the combination of image and text working in complementary and conflicting ways to create a kind of interweaving fugal effect. the zines/ chapbooks are published on a bi-monthly basis by redundant span. they are available both in shops/ cafes and bars around Leeds for free and i have a subscription list who receive the free publications every other month

the second of a series of publications and zines that attempt to give visual form to my writing. i am interested here in the combination of image and text working in complementary and conflicting ways to create a kind of interweaving fugal effect. the zines/ chapbooks are published on a bi-monthly basis by redundant span. they are available both in shops/ cafes and bars around Leeds for free and i have a subscription list who receive the free publications every other month.

first of a series of publications and zines that attempt to give visual form to my writing. i am interested here in the combination of image and text working in complementary and conflicting ways to create a kind of interweaving fugal effect. the zines/ chapbooks are published on a bi-monthly basis by redundant span. they are available both in shops/ cafes and bars around Leeds for free and i have a subscription list who receive the free publications every other month

A small zine published through my imprint Redundant Span that captured 30 days in June 2025 as a series of typographic headlines of a putative left-populist newspaper, the Wrangthorn Enquirer, photographed within the area of Hyde Park, Leeds itself.

As part of the Modernist magazine’s special issue on Layout, [number 44] I wrote an essay about the work of bookmaker and designer Irma Boom, which was a summation of my interview with Irma for the Inside Out Lectures in May. https://the-modernist.org/collections/the-modernist-magazine/products/the-modernist-magazine-issue-44-layout

An overview of graphic design in the North of England for a special issue of Grafik magazine.

A critical review of the book and exhibition No Machos, No Popstars by Gavin Butt in Tribune magazine.

During lockdown, a bookshop placed Pete Mitchell's photographs of Leeds in the 1970s and 80s on billboards near their original locations – juxtaposing the modern city with its own nostalgic past.

Exhibition of Artist’s Books at PAGES Artists Book Fair, 2014/15.

An exhibition of a putative community newspaper called the Wrangthorn Enquirer that showed printwork, zines and short films reporting, quite abstractly, on a summer in the Hyde Park area of Leeds. The exhibition changed every week over the period of the two months in response to the events of the summer.

A zine published by Redundant Span that attempts to trace the evolution of a thought as it occurred both within a specific time and place, walking across Woodhouse Moor in Leeds and how it then manifested itself through the production of the small publication itself.

An essay on the relationship between the art schools in Leeds in the late seventies and early eighties and art practice in response to Gavin Butt's curated exhibition at Leeds Arts University.