‘‘See-Pages’’ Long Gallery exhibition, Clod Magazine

Staring in the face of their 40th anniversary year, (2027), local and international, Luton-based publication is pleased to work alongside The Culture Trust to share a selection from its 1,800 archival pages at the ‘Long Gallery’. As a small publisher, ‘Clod Magazine & Books’ continue to publish their semi-satirical, semi-fictional ‘Clod’ editions, alongside editions of ‘Fold’ magazine, editions of ‘Luton Haiku’ poetry, manifestoes, photo-books and box-sets, kitchen-sink limericks, short stories, compendiums, card-sets, writer blogs, biker blogs, beer blogs, long poetic opuses, etc

Opening View
📅 Friday 17th April 2026.
🕕 6–8pm
🎟Free entry
Stay on afterwards for the Creative Industry Network networking event, 7–9pm.
Clod magazine are available to ask about independent publishing, with their 40th anniversary approaching!

Meet the Artist
How To Do Magazines Now!

Join Clod Magazine at the Long Gallery for an evening on independent publishing, magazineship, music, notebooks, deadlines, design, success, failure and how to love Luton.

📅 Fri 1 May
🕕 6-8pm
📍 Hat Works, 47 Guildford Street, Luton
🎟 Free entry

Closing View & Meet the Artists
Turning a chapter of their 40th Anniversary, indulge in a screening of Hometown wanderings, coherent chat, musical interludes and liberal use of the haiku poetic form. Life in one of Britain's least-loved towns as seen through the eyes of four native Lutonians, makers of art, music, magazines and poetry. And they rock.
📅 Fri 3rd June
📍 Hat Factory Arts Centre, Luton
🎟 Free entry

To view their ongoing visual art exhibition, visit the Long Gallery at the Hat Factory Arts Centre.
Delivered through the Creative Industry Network.

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Featuring enlargements of original page lay-outs, and graphics alongside Clod’s unwilting editorial narrative. Though the framed works represent specific Clod pages, they have playfully been given their own titles by the editorial team, and in this sense can be seen as stand-alone collages, and nearly like art itself.

Clod began in the Spring of 1987, and the pioneering team of four, (two sets of brothers from Caddington and Slip End), remain the sole contributors to this day.

Early editions were reproduced on works’ photocopiers, (not illegal, but certainly ill-mannered and disrespectful). After issue six, Clod switched to a commercial printers, for edition runs of between two and three hundred.Clod magazines were initially sold to gig-goers, as the team toured the country in their music group ‘Thrilled Skinny’.

Since the early 2000s, Clod has been an ever-present face at press fairs. Events such as the ‘Small Publishers’ Fair’, ‘Publish and Be Damned’, and ‘Artists Self-Publishers (ASP)’ have helped cement Clod in the independent publishing community. Recent work with the British Library has meant that much of their printed and audio work will be archived for future generations in the national interest.