SMUT Press is a collective print-publishing project founded in early 2022 by Jordan Hearns & Jack Scollard. Developing from a number of collaborative projects across audio/visual, installation and publications, SMUT Press was founded to spotlight, support and commission artists to produce printed matter, with a particular focus on platforming artists who are queer identifying.

Since its inception, SMUT Press have released seven publications, collaborated with 14 artists and 5 writers and worked with digital visual filing system, SOOT.  Work by the press has been profiled by i-D, The Face, Polyesterzine, BUTT, HERO and The Irish Times.  The press regularly attends fairs and have exhibited at Paris Ass Book Fair, Books on Photography in Bristol, Bound Art Book Fair in Manchester, Inventory, Artist Self-Publishing Fair in London and Tsundoku Art Book Fair in Dublin, amongst others.

‘Cruising Archaeology,’ the most recent publication by the press, was launched during their debut appearance at Paris Ass Book Fair 2024. Initially borne from an anonymous Instagram account, this project was a careful process of selection and curation that sees the artist reconstitute detritus and debris discarded in over half a dozen renowned cruising locations around London into cultural artefacts. Positioning archaeology as its point of departure, over 100 unique relics not only uncovered and investigated the types of sex and pleasure that happen in cruising areas through a material culture lens, but also served as a testimonial to the often invisible sexual practice. The book has subsequently sold out from the SMUT Press website.

Material from SMUT Press can be found in 24 stockists worldwide, including After 8 Books, Les Mots A La Bouche, Unitom, Village Books, The Photographer’s Gallery, Photo Museum Ireland, Donlon Books, Tenderbooks, CLASSIC, Skylight Books, Keller Kreuzberg, and more.  Material by the press is also housed in various archives including the Bishopsgate Institute in London, the PhotoIreland Archive and Photo Museum Ireland’s National Photography Collection.

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