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CentreCentre is a publishing platform producing limited edition books on art, design and photography.

We celebrate visual culture that exists on the periphery, containing and preserving unexpected collections, projects and artworks.

09/01/2025

Buses Bi-Monthly, April-May 1986 £1.50

24/11/2024

Crimes and Punishment magazine, highlights found in issues published across 1970s

21/10/2024

MONDAY

16/10/2024

Figural cameos - illustrative brand marks from 1800s, US. Found in the collection of José Rodríguez at

14/10/2024

General Ludd was a fictitious leader of the Luddite’s secret society - a group of (primarily) textile workers who rebelled against the growing automation of their industry. This ticket from 1812 is one of the few surviving ephemeral pieces left from the movement. Image from

11/10/2024

Early 1900s ink advertisements from The Inland Printer found via

10/10/2024

Thanks to who wrote a nice description of our latest book:

The Art Beneath celebrates the beauty of the structures that Iie hidden beneath the surface of paintings. This collection of microscopic cross sections of thirteenth to twentieth-century paintings was selected from about 7,000 paint samples held in the archives of the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge.

The paint samples used, each no bigger than a printed full stop, each contain their own universes - abstract and otherworldly landscapes streaked with strata of the most beautiful colours. A sample taken from a painting of flowers by Monet turns into a iridescent and bejewelled galaxy of yellows and purples, a Canaletto morphs into a slice through the earth’s hot core, all liquid oranges and reds.

These samples, extracted from the very edges of paintings, taken to study the physical nature of the paint, or to throw light on an artist’s technique or materials, find their own form here. The purposeful stroke of the artist reveals, at a microscopic level, another art beneath, one that could never have been dreamed of, and one that holds our gaze as the original paintings do.

06/09/2024

The Art Beneath reorients painting as three-dimensional and durational, revealing the painter’s patient assembling (and conservators’ quiet retracing) of an artwork from ground up. Within one sample of paint, the size of a pin prick or full stop, lies a vast and complex geological strata; a masterpiece by Titian becomes an abstract landscape of yellowing varnish, crunchy blue lapis, a silken slab of lead white, sea shells floating in chalk, egg mingling with oil atop of taut canvas.

02/09/2024

The Art Beneath, reorients painting as three-dimensional and durational, revealing the painter’s patient assembling (and conservators’ quiet retracing) of an artwork from ground up. Within one sample of paint, the size of a pin prick or full stop, lies a vast and complex geological strata; a masterpiece by Titian becomes an abstract landscape of yellowing varnish, crunchy blue lapis, a silken slab of lead white, sea shells floating in chalk, egg mingling with oil atop of taut canvas.

22/08/2024

Claude Monet, 1922. Microscopic paint sample. Depicting Flowers. Photographed by Spike Bucklow.

15/08/2024

Rembrandt, 1650. Microscopic paint sample. Depicting a red robe. Photographed by Spike Bucklow.

13/08/2024

Van Dyck, 1510. Microscopic paint sample. Depicting Blue Drapery. Photographed by Spike Bucklow.

03/07/2024

A big thank you to Spike Bucklow and all the people who attended the launch of The Art Beneath last night. The book is now available to buy on our site and at Tenderbooks.

06/06/2024

We are having a book launch at - if you are London based or enthusiastic enough about microscopic paint samples to travel, we would love to see you there. 2nd July 6-8pm, Tender Books, 6 Cecil Court, London, WC2N 4HE - there will be drinks, books and possibly some words.

03/06/2024

Postcards for our next title, The Art Beneath. Free on our table at this weekend (Fri to Sun) at

28/05/2024

We will be exhibiting at - a new book fair and programme at from - next weekend from Friday 7th - Sunday 9th June.
Come say hello, pick up a book at a special price and see the excellent work by fellow exhibitors such as:
.from.the.kiln .editions .editions .co and many many more!

25/04/2024

🇪🇬 Moving Pictures Painted is finally stocked in Egypt, thanks to the wonderful gallery and bookstore

25/03/2024

Moving Pictures Painted is now stocked in one of our favourite shops 🙌 thanks to

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