About Mail art and this exhibition
Mail art is, at its simplest, art that travels through the postal system. The movement we call ‘mail art’ or ‘postal art’ began in the 1950s. International mail artist Ray Johnson is considered the first mail artist and in 1962 he renamed his practicethe ‘New York Correspondence School’. Mail artists trade ideas with other mail artists, sometimes putting out a ‘call’ for mail art on a particular theme. Mail art can be in any format, in any






