Artist Residency
Residency Application FAQ
Current and Past Residents
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Artists, photographers, musicians, writers and makers across disciplines are welcome to apply to our residency programme. The intention of the residency is to offer artists uninterrupted time in a well-equipped studio with offsite living accommodations.

This residency has proven to be a generative period for experimentation and collaboration. Artists can add to their work practice, explore new mediums, create an edition, or otherwise advance their printmaking skills.

Edition ~ verso strives to advance outcomes from the residenct that stimulate original and inventive work that the artist might not otherwise have reached without access to the edition ~ verso studio.


Each residency is tailored to meet an artist’s needs, offers a focussed period in which to make work in an assisted manner and/or to allow for self-led projects that may or may not include workshops in the various print techniques. We facilitate intaglio, relief, monotype and papermaking. We do not offer lithographic process. 

Artists are able to focus on either a specific technique, the creation of a body of work and/or allow for a research-led programme that incorporates experimentation in what the studio has to offer.



Previous residents include, as seen above, left to right; Blake Daniels (USA/France), Felix Shumba (Zimbabwe), Lucila Novoa (Netherlands)


Papermaking Programme

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As a conscious effort toward the importance of material properties, edition ~ verso collaborates with artists in the making of handmade paper. Using paper and cotton waste from the various studios (including our own) and local industry, we are able to generate a variety of pulp-based products. A variety of organic and inorganic materials can be used in our papermaking pulp to help conceptualise work and generate one-of-a-kind paper. We make custom paper to order, as well as aid artists and creatives with the process to develop their own paper and paper products. 

This endeavour allows for artists working with edition ~ verso to include a facilitated paper making practice and/or paper making residency alongside the making of prints in the studio. 

We have ongoing paper making projects in association with various institutes as well as independent studios, fashion designers and creatives. In collaboration with the bookbinding studio, PULP Paperworks, we have trained specialized technicians that aid in hosting workshops and facilitate the process within the studio.

For custom paper products, projects and/or questions please email us at editionverso@gmail.com

Have a look at our handmade paper, cards and envelopes currently avaialble for purchase


Above examples of some of our hand made paper cards and envelopes, full sheets and the Viviers shopper bag custom made in collaboration with PULP Paperworks for fashion designer, Lezanne Viviers


Publications

Proximal/Distal
Meteorites


As an affiliate practice to traditional printmaking, edition ~ verso is on occasion involved in the production of printed publications. These come in varying forms and always include the practice of transferring image/text from a matrix to substrate. 

Proximal/Distal, a project initiated by Bettina Malcomess and Francis Burger both of whom work alongside edition ~ verso in the making of printed matter, is a collaborative project bringing together a network of geographically dispersed sound practitioners, artists and researchers for a series of digital relays, passes and points of engagement. In collaboration with Francis Burger, edition ~ verso  printed all of the fabric covers which held the printed, recorded and book matter together.  
This work was featured at LUMA Arles on the AFROPHON artists’ books fair.  
It is housed in the edition ~ verso studio and The Library of Things We Forget to Remember by artist Kudzanai Chiurai among other places.

Meteorites is a book of poems about childhood, curiousity, and reproach, written by writer/maker/curator Lavendhri Arumugam* – who grew up in East London and Johannesburg (South Africa) and now lives and works in London (United Kingdom).
Meteorites, a book of poems by Lavendhri Arumugam, co-published by Oriole Press and edition~verso, 2023. Available at Hopscotch Reading Room, Kurfürstenstraße 14/Haus B, 10785 Berlin, and by order.


Above: Various installations and homes to the publication, Proximal Distal


Above: Meteorites; A book of poems by Lavendhri Arumugam. Available to purchase please contact to order


Internship

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edition ~ verso hosts an active internship programme that supports many of the studio’s activities. Interns are trained in various capacities reflecting not only those within the scope of print and paper making but, extend to professional practice within the broader arts sector. An internship at the edition ~ verso is a great opportunity to learn about a professional workshop/studio. Interns are involved in many aspects of our programs and receive hands on work experience. We welcome applications throughout the year.

For more information on the internship programme and/or for application enquiries, please email us and/or complete the Application Form. 



Special Projects

The art of politics…the politics of art – silkscreen workshop and discussion on democracy

Exhibition Match

Kind (2020-1)

edition ~ verso does special things. Some of these commissioned projects take the shape of workshops, print installations, assistance collating significant texts amongst other things. 


 

Above: Amongst these projects, in 2024, edition ~ verso was asked by SWOP to facilitate a silkscreen workshop. For more information please see the link. 


Above: One of artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s prints from her series, An Account, printed and published by edition ~ verso was used as the front image for the soccer jersey for Exhibition Match hosted during the FNB Art Joburg fair 2023. 


Above: Installation, accompanying prints and publication made for artist Ruth Sacks in collaboration with Shaifali Bramdev. 



Art Fairs

FNB Art Joburg 2022
FNB Art Joburg 2023
FNB Art Joburg 2024


We have participated in three iterations of FNB Art Joburg. Our first participation in 2022 was in collaboration with POOL Space and artist Nina Barnett.

In 2023 edition ~ verso participated with a selection of prints with a special focus on new releases by artists Gabrielle Goliath, Felix Shumba, Nyakallo Maleke and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s series An Account featured on the Exhibition Match soccer 
jersey. 

In 2024, edition ~ verso together with PULP Paperworks, VIVIERS Studio and artist Marlene Hettie Steyn produced a series of handmade paperworks as an installation in the Glass House. These pulp sculptural pieces accompanied printed garments as signature pieces for the VIVIERS Spring/Summer 2024/2025 collection.






For further information please email editionverso@gmail.com.
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