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The European eel is a critically endangered species and with the creative collaboration, A Suitcase Full of Eels, John Kilburn, Lecturer in Illustration a the Â鶹´«Ã½, and from Guillemot Press, are hoping to raise awareness of this exceptionally weird and mysterious fish.

The decline of the European Eel is having a significant impact on a staggering breadth of species, including birds, mammals and fish, and both marine and freshwater species. It is at once one of the most written about fish in Britain and the most mysterious and elusive.

But eels are not (what conservationists refer to as) a ‘charismatic species’ and as such, they have been unduly ignored. John and Luke both work within absurdism - John as an artist and illustrator and Luke as a writer and publisher, and together they have created a body of work that reflects the species and the issues surrounding it in new and surprising ways.