Jeff Young

@wildtwin.bsky.social

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Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin, (Little Toller)

Collage on paper. Bird and cherubs, ink and pastel, paint and crayon. Paper shapes and page from bird guide book
Book on a table. Carnation by Alexander Booth
A picture sleeve copy of Deaf School’s Taxi and a folded white handkerchief
TLS ACKERLEY PRIZE 2025, Wild Twin
Image shows a knotted stalk of grass lying on the dark earth of a footpath in the woods
Dreamcloud of Unknowing, collage on paper using fragments from a broken book about the Impressionist painters and some bird guide book images. Plus ink, pastel, paint
Photo shows backyard table, books, a cup of tea, a geranium, notebook and pen
Image shows my office. Books , papers, chair, typewriter, blinds, sunlight on floorboards
Image shows cross made from salvaged wood on the banks of the River Mersey
Order of Events for 50 Years Jung celebrations today.
Street sign for Melly Road in Liverpool. Scrawled S in front of Melly to make it SMelly
Collage on paper. Ink, found images of paintings, paint, foil
Photo shows a family outside a terraced house in Liverpool in 1957. That’s me in my mum’s arms, dad at the back, sister Val standing
Monochrome photo of boarded up pub in Kirkdale, Liverpool
Front cover of the journals of photographer Minor White. Image shows White on dark shirt, arms folded
Letter written by my grandfather to my mum Maureen while she was evacuated to Wales from Liverpool during WW2
Image shows a bivouac/ den made from tree branches in a forest
Close up photo of a fritillary in Princes Park, Liverpool
DAVID KEENAN AUTHOR TALK. Liverpool Waterstones, Monday 13 April 6.30pm. Photo of David Keenan on flyer for the event
Black and white photo of my sister Val dancing on a hillside in Wales in the 60s. She’s wearing a hat, dancing and smiling at the camera
Photograph of Stuart Sutcliffe’s family grave in St Michaels churchyard, Huyton
Black and white photo, man sitting on steps in back garden of derelict Liverpool house surrounded by discarded furniture
Paragraph from the book Wild Twin describing Jeffrey Lee Pierce singing Disco Inferno
The Sacred Memory Bank Is Now Closed. Collage of letters on torn book cover
Photo of a cemetery, broken and tilting grave and tombstones, wild undergrowth and a laburnum tree.
Latchkey Jeff Young 18.03.26 Manuscript front page
Photo of me and my daughter Pearl at a bench at Keats House, Hampstead. Baby in buggy, me on bench in dark coat. Happy 21st to Pearl
Collage made from found photos, hand written notes, ink and paint
Image shows Penny Kiley’s book Atypical Girl full of post it notes. Cover shot of Penny in the 70’s dressed in black
Front cover of David Keenan’s book Boyhood. Boy blowing bubblegum and smiling into the camera
Black and white photo of 13 Falkner Square Liverpool, a grand Georgian townhouse looking up the front path from the gate
Liverpool sunset, vivid colours, dark shadows of trees below.
Image shows front cover of Atypical Girl by Penny Kiley, her forthcoming memoir. Photo of Penny in black t shirt against wall with Jonathan Richman poster
Photo shows two copies of Ghost Town book, hardback and paperback. The cover is a black and white photograph of two small children in a doorway in the early 1900’s. The children are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom
Four assemblages from the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery. Pieces incorporate buttons, marbles, photographs, jars of see, ceramics, fragments of poems from old books, coins and beads
Black and white photo of a shelf and wall in my office. Absolute chaos
Image shows a box assemblage including a children’s book UP THE RAINBOW STAIRS, a cigarette card of a seahorse, a shell and two small books. Photo of child in circular metal frame
Image shows painted wooden box assemblage with paper collage, ballerina photograph, sherry glass full of marbles made by Jeff Young in the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery
Image shows a wooden box with 8 metal cigarette tins. Inside each cigarette tin is a small abstract painting. ( photo Steve Samosa)
Film clip of Jeff Young and Mike Badger explaining their exhibition The Sacred Memory Bank at Kirkby Art Gallery
Blue building, London Road Liverpool
Collage on paper, repeated lettering saying I REMEMBER, on background of painted abstract
Poster for Dooley Day, Liverpool 17th January. Photo of sculptor Arthur Dooley in woolly hat and jumper looking thoughtful
An assemblage in a wooden box, old book, cigarette card of seahorse, seashell, two small books, circular metal frame with found photo of small girl. Up the Rainbow Stairs
Extract from Ghost Town which begins: In school, we weren’t allowed to live in our own universes…’ relating to teenage love of David Bowie and posted in the tenth anniversary of his death.
Image shows 18 collages on paper, part of The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool which opens on the 19th January
Image shows the Parrot pub, Scotland Road Liverpool. The facade of the front has gone, exposing the rooms inside. A man cycles past on the pavement
Strange weather over farm fields, sky full of hail forming a curtain of darkness
The SACRED MEMORY BANK MIKE BADGER JEFF YOUNG ASSEMBLAGE COLLAGE WORD AT KIRKBY GALLERY 19 Jan - 27 March 2026
Small boxes framing found photos of families at the seaside, hand printed words in each box
22 Boxes of photos of people on holiday. Black and white found photos of mostly women and children on beaches
Derelict library. Everton, Liverpool
Black and White photo of three children. Two older wearing duffel coats and a baby looking startled sitting in a wooden car at a Christmas grotto in Liverpool in the 60’s
Image shows 48 assemblages in boxes and cigar tins ready to be packed up and shipped to Kirkby Gallery for The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition which opens on 19th January, a collaborative exhibition with Mike Badger.
Image shows the dreadful frieze on the front of new development in Liverpool that replaced the Futurist cinema. A badly drawn outline of the cinema, meaningless words surrounding it
Xmas grenades £15.
Image shows two books - Ghost Town and Wild Twin by Jeff Young. Published by Little Toller.
Wild Twin collage, old and ripped postcard of Amsterdam, typed notes, handwritten notes, ink, paint, pastels, dark circle in centre, rubber stamped word ‘ghost’
Photo of Futurist Picturehouse in Liverpool. 60’s cars, milk bar, memories