The Vorticist aesthetic disappeared from view for much of the 20th century, its memory blotted out by two brutal world wars, but the individualistic vision of its creators is kept alive by a small band of enthusiasts around the world. This website's primary purpose is to bring together these modern practioners of the Vortex, to demonstrate that its art and vision lives on.

Tom Holmes is a North American Vorticist poet who has an especial regard for the works of another Vorticist Poet, Ezra Pound, who was also an American. There was a sizeable Armerican contingent within the original Vorticist group, with Pound heading it up. Lewis was another North American, whilst Alvin Langdon Coburn, the photographer (or 'Vortographer', to use Pound's term) was yet another. It was Pound of course who coined the term Vorticism in the first place.

Christian Atkinson, is the grandson of Lawrence Atkinson (signatory of the original Vorticist Manifesto in Blast). Christian is a committed Vorticist, continuing to produce Vorticist works in the style of his grandfather. He occasionally produces works at his home in Norfolk, and if you are interested in obtaining a genuine piece of bespoke Vorticist art, you can email me.

There aren't many letterpress printing establishments left these days - most have replaced this age-old system of printing for the less labour-intensive lithographic process. But hidden here and there are small private presses which are content to produce printed work as if it were still 1914, on machines of such a Vorticist vintage, using the same letterpress techniques that were used when Blast was printed. Such a firm is the Vorticist Press, dedicated to perpetuate the zany typographical style that made Blast so famous. The Vorticist Press produces small runs of postcards, prints and manifestos, mostly for fun, and definitely not for profit!