A Shoal of Mackerel

is an independent publishing house, specialising in small editions and run by artists for artists.
A Shoal of Mackerel is based in Glasgow & Göteborg.

It was started in March 2004 by Petra-Maria Saarinen, Cecilia Stenbom & Harald Melrose Turek.
Currently A Shoal of Mackerel is run by Alex Bettencourt, Mari Lagerquist, Lina Persson & Harald Melrose Turek.

All are practicing artists and have been making artists books independently of each other for a good while.
Whereas Harald & Alex are based in Glasgow, Mari i& Lina are based in Göteborg.