Ante

Stuart Alexander

Melpomene Do our everyday, common and often domestic ritualistic actions affirm the belief that we exist, in relation to the idea that these actions consequentially lead to our affecting the physical and psychological environment of ourselves and others? Does seeing others in the same domestic situations as us unify us ...

Chto Delat?

The platform Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod. Website: http://www.chtodelat.org/

Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher’s work epitomises art as a tool for social change. Whilst probably best known for her visual work with the band Crass (1977-1984), Vaucher’s work has roamed far and wide and is full of twists and turns. Sometimes, its a clever subversion – a slight of hand –  more ...

The 1in12 Club Library

Housed in the 1in12 Social centre in Bradford, the Meltzer-Goldberg library contains a substantial collection of Anarchist and Radical Texts. We often have presence at local and national Anarchist Book-fairs and have strong relationship with radical booksellers, publishers and other like-minded libraries. Our collection focuses on political figure, philosophies, oppressed ...

Lorain B

Artist Lorain B is constantly experimenting in all things creative and collaborative, and involved on the zine scene with Loosely Bound and Craft Soup. Lorain will be running a little book making activity for the younger Ante-artists on Saturday 4th May. Based in Menston and Otley, Lorain facilitates workshops for all ...

Remembering who we are

REMEMBERING WHO WE ARE To help celebrate and reclaim May Day, Melanie Maddison and Lindsay Starbuck will display an exhibition of work by various artists commemorating labour and workers’ movements, actions, and struggles. Included will be a selection of work from Shape and Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women, the ...

Cluster of colourblind hedgehogs in a bag collective

Kind of a tribute to protest pieces and a reaction to our current reality.  With chaotic humour and a Carnivalesque approach the piece hopes to offer creative means/form of escape.  

Ante-MUSIC

ANTE-MUSIC Saturday 4th May 7.30pm ’til 10.30pm at the Kirkgate Centre, Kirkgate, Shipley BD18 3EH. N.Racker http://www.nracker.co.uk Petals Yol Brian Gilson Luke Poot £4 entry Licensed Bar Finishes in time for the last train home to Leeds and for more fun at the 1in12 Club

Paperback

PaperBack is a paper company set up in 1983 to help close the recycling loop by providing greater choice of recycled printing papers. PaperBack is an employee-owned cooperative. Everyone at the company has an equal stake in the business. This means we share a commitment to ensuring that you get ...

Drip Collective

The DRIP collective formed out of a desire to bring a different kind of coffee to Bradford. Direct Trade coffee. It’s not coffee sold on the commodities market. No investors making a fat profit.It’s not found in Costa, Starbucks or a Petrol Station. Why would they serve you fresh coffee ...

Graham Tansley

Dropping his pseudonym this year, Graham Tansley is working on a piece using film.    

Jacky Fleming

Jacky Fleming is a satirical cartoonist and illustrator well known locally for many of the most memorable Leeds Postcards. Jacky’s work can be found at http://jackyfleming.co.uk                      

Footprint Workers Coop

  We are a small ecologically minded printers based in Leeds. We print booklets, zines, leaflets, stickers, newsletters, fliers, books, CD wallets and that sort of gubbins. We are a workers co-operative, which means our business is owned by the workers. As we have no bosses we run it as ...

Alice & Bob

    TWEETART:  No Union flags, no Olympic references, nothing made of gold. Art, sent by the lovely people of Twitter http://bobmilner.wordpress.com Alice Bradshaw and Bob Milner are artists who also curate and have previously collaborated on a number of projects since meeting in 2007 including Temporary Art Show at ...

Idiot’s Pasture

Idiot’s Pasture, or as his friends call him; Idiot, is a strictly lowbrow illustrator, drawer and printmaker from everybody’s favourite industrial town, Halifax. Nothing is polished and nothing is precious for Idiot, with worked based around macho relations, social faux pas, nonsensical endeavours. Idiot’s Low Brow Printshop will be  resurrected at the Ante-art Factory, ...

Wizard of the North

The Wizard of the North reigns from deep within the suburban wilderness of East Leeds, his work is a celebration and fascination of the simpler things in life, using hand made textures to provoke the accessible elements and enjoyment of mark making. He has recently begun a new obsession with woodcarving, in ...

Banana box

The banana box was rediscovered during an attic clear-out. A forgotten repository for a few hundred printed papers, posters and flyers, mainly from the 1980s anarchist scene – it’s a glimpse into a world of  Thatcher, riots, the poll tax, protests, open class war and devastating defeats.

Papercut Bindery

I think it’s fair to say I’m pretty obsessed by binding. If one element of the process isn’t to my satisfaction, it’s back to the drawing board. Even though someone may not notice, I will. Being self taught I’m always searching for authentic techniques, scouring books and websites for that ...

Mike Winnard

I’m Mike, I make pictures, pastes and stuff. Website: http://mikewinnard.co.uk/

Knit a Bear Face

        Knit a Bear Face is a guerilla knitting group from Leeds. For Ante they will be Knitting A Bedroom Tax, an installation which highlights the unfairness of society’s poorest being forced from their homes.   Here are a couple of vids of Aphex Twinset in action: ...

Wobblies

We are the Bradford General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World and we are the Union for ALL workers. (For further information please email: bradfordiww@gmail.com) Why the IWW? We are a grassroots and democratic union helping to organise all workers in all workplaces. The IWW differs from ...

Loosely Bound

We are Loosely Bound,  a motley crew of zine makers based in and around Bradford. We formed in late 2011 and call ourselves  Loosely Bound because we all make zines in different ways, from per-zines to those containing photography, craft and other visual arts, using methods that range from the ...

Black Dogs

Have you ever attempted to bring a little joy, a sparkle of entertainment or a taste of home into the arid environment of the workplace only to have it taken away from you, banned, stolen, locked in your boss’ drawer for being fun, distracting, dangerous, or just too clever for ...

The Print Project

Our aim is to keep the skill and art of letterpress alive by producing work which is incredible to read, feel and touch. It’s that simple. We actively salvage, recycle and re-use print equipment (ink, type, paper etc) which is rendered obsolete by commercial interests. We are based at the world famous 1in12 Club, Bradford—a ...