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Joshua David Hester is a UK-based writer, visual artist, and publishing practitioner. His work moves through poetry, performance, and handcrafted editions, exploring the book as both vessel and voice.
At the heart of his practice is a quiet trust in spontaneity, sincerity, and the spaces where the senses can rest. Studying the patterns of astrology, he turns to the written and spoken word as a way of tracing rhythm, deepening reflection, and opening conversation. Books remain the thread that binds it all—places where form and feeling meet, and where personal expression becomes a shared ground for healing.
Every design is a moment of stillness pulled from motion — a quiet shape in the chaos. What I do is not just design, but a kind of listening. To nature. To space. To people. To the unseen harmony that wants to emerge. These works are traces of that practice — one that is deeply lived, gently refined, and forever unfolding.
Well Books Fair
Co-hosted with a Personal Exhibition
Fusebox, Kingston
March 2025
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STOCKISTS
The Nature of the Eighth
BOOKS Peckham
London Review Bookshop
PRESS
Meet Joshua Hester
Learning the Craft
7.05.25 | Canvas Rebel
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Well Books Fair
7.03.25 | Stanley Picker Gallery
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Meet our new Creative Talent Programme Artist!
27.03.2024 | Creative Youth
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Creative Sparks - February 2024
29.02.2024 | Creative Youth
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Creative Sparks - Care & Healing
19.02.2024 | Creative Youth
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EDUCATION
Creatives in Publishing: Binding a Path to Being Published
Camden Art Centre
[2025]
BA Graphic Design (First)
Kingston University
[4 years]
WORKSHOPS
Poetic Book Binding Workshop
Esher College | Christopher Knowles | 2024, 2025
Book Arts Workshop
Ham Youth Club | 2025
Mindful Art Bookbinding Sessions
Fusebox | Creative Youth | 2024
EXPERIENCE
Branding & Design Internship
Muneebah Creative
Remote (London)
2022-23
Ralph & Co Creative
London
2017
RESIDENCIES
Creative Talent Programme
Artist Residency
Fusebox: Creative Youth
2024-25