Folded Realities - The Exhibition

I covered the latest exhibition at The Mill Gallery this evening (14th Nov) and despite the torrential rain lashing against the windows the crowds turned up to see an impressive array of work from many talented artists. The exhibition is titled Folded Realities and runs until the 12th December.

Folded Realities unfolds a vibrant world where stories take shape through ink, paper, and imagination. Presented by Aire Place Studios in collaboration with Zineophelia, the exhibition brings together artists working across zines, comics, illustration, and print to explore how images can twist, stretch, and fold our sense of what’s real.

Zines are an impermanent medium, made to be shared, passed on, and remade. To complete their full definition, they must be disseminated; they are not just publications but acts of communication. The culture comes first, and zines follow. Folded Realities is a snapshot of that culture: zines frozen in time, communicating live en masse.

This exhibition becomes a kind of time capsule, a report on where zine culture stands right now, where it has come from, and where it’s heading next.

From hand-drawn narratives and experimental sequences to bold, graphic storytelling, each piece invites viewers to step into a different perspective, where humour meets politics, abstraction meets emotion, and reality blurs into invention.