"Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class
artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission."
Join us for an exciting evening to celebrate Marc Garrett's latest book and
welcome Cassie Thornton, who wrote the foreword for Feral Class.
Doors Open 6:45 pm, Event Starts 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Wednesday 19th November 2025
Housmans Bookshop. 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX
All are welcome. Please book in advance to secure a place.
https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-feral-class-with-mark-garrett/
Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration
of his early years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist
navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid
storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores how his upbringing shaped
his identity, forging a path that defied societal expectations. How can one
survive, let alone thrive, as part of what Garrett describes as the feral
class: a group of individuals who, like him, exist outside traditional
institutions and thrive in the margins, using resourcefulness and rebellion to
carve out their own artistic spaces?
Weaving together personal memories, political reflections, and the struggles of
working-class artists, Feral Class challenges the elitism of the art world. It
celebrates the radical potential of those who refuse to conform. Garrett’s
narrative is both an intimate self-portrait and a rallying cry for artists who
refuse to be tamed. Passionate, unfiltered, and insightful, this book is an
essential read for anyone interested in the intersections of class, creativity,
and resistance.
Bio: Marc Garrett’s life and work embody the intersection of art, technology,
and social change, shaped by his working-class upbringing and a commitment to
challenging institutional hierarchies. Growing up in Southend-on-Sea, he
explored creative expression through street art, pirate radio, and early online
activism before co-founding Furtherfield in 1996 with Ruth Catlow, an
artist-led community that resisted the commercialisation of the art world.
Despite personal challenges, including a cancer diagnosis in 2022, Garrett
continues to focus on ideas and questions that acknowledge and engage
working-class and feral-class contexts as a springboard for more extensive
dialogues on creating conditions for social change across art, technology, and
ecology.
Bio: Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the
unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She employs
social practices, including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and
“healing modalities” such as hypnosis and yoga, to identify soft spots in the
hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative
credit reporting service for survivors of gentrification, has hypnotised hedge
fund managers, finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, donated cursed
paintings to profiteering bankers, and taught feminist economics to yogis (and
vice versa). Her 2020 book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a
Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.
You can also order the book here:https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
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