Biography
Stuart Mills (b. Flintshire, North Wales 1940 -d. 2006) was a poet who published and encouraged the work of many others under the imprints of Tarasque Press and Aggie Weston's. He studied painting at Birmingham Art College, where he met his wife Rosemary Deval. He founded Tarasque Press with Simon Cutts and opened The Trent Bookshop in Nottingham, followed by Drury Hill Bookshop and Gallery and, in the city centre, Bux. In 1966, he put on a poetry festival at Nottingham's Albert Hall. Mills organised the printing of five screenprints by Ian Hamilton Finlay, and his first solo show, at the Axiom Gallery, London, in 1968.