CHEERIO is an eclectic, independent publishing imprint and production company launched in 2020 in association with The Estate of Francis Bacon.
We commission innovative books and films that confound received ideas and open the door to new perceptions. In the spirit of Francis Bacon’s work, we are here to intrigue, disturb and thrill.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2023
Shopping Lists: A Consuming Fascination
by Ingrid Swenson
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Some years ago, Ingrid Swenson began collecting found shopping lists from the same North London Waitrose. Enlightening and funny, fascinating, and poetic, these private notes to self-detailing someone's weekly shop-rocket and antibacterial wipes, treacle and prawns, fags and milk - invite us to speculate on and imagine the private universes of their authors. More
Cowboy
by Kandace Siobhan Walker
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The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep currents – of embodied and disembodied spiritualities; familial mythologies; More
Kit
by Megan Barker
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Megan and Kit met in their early twenties. Their friendship was intense, wild and true. More