Pilot Press

Pilot Press is the imprint of multidisciplinary artist Richard Porter. Initially started in 2017 to share the work of friends, the publishing house quickly built a reputation retrieving and championing a philosophy of artist’s publishing lost to AIDS and capitalism. Today, its titles can be found in independent bookshops, academic libraries and special print collections around the world. In 2023 Pilot Press was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses for the publication the novel My Dead Book by Nate Lippens. In November of that same year, it published the anthology Responses to Forbidden Colours (1988) by Felix Gonzalez Torres, which raises money for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in the wake of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.  Pilot Press is and remains an entirely independent, solo artist’s project that receives no external funding or support. All profit from sales goes directly towards the development and production of its catalogue.