The Cycad Collection, Volume 1 - Natal Provence (GB/30752)
Douglas Goode (illustrations), John Comrie-Greig (text), Brett Hendey (preface), Piet Vorster (introduction) and Peter Carstens (bookbinding) (1993 - 98)

Envisaged as the first of a number of volumes, this single volume is possibly one of the rarest books on the subject in the form of a Florilegium. It took a total of five years to complete as each of the completed lithographic images is hand-coloured. The full edition has still to be realised.

Medium: Letterpress, stone lithography and hand colouring
Dimensions: 330mm x 250mm
Edition size: 100

E-POS “Persoonlijke Vocabulaire” / E-POS“Personal Vocabulary” (GB/30760) Malcolm Christian and Veerle Rooms (project leaders), Garth Erasmus, Fikele Skosana, Malou Swinnen, Linda Vinck (artists), Vonani Bila, Mavis Smallberg,Suzanne Binnemans, Frans Boenders(poets and writers), Gabisile Nkosi, Ivan Durt, Hans van Dijck and Zhané Warren(print assistants) (2003-04)

E-POS is a bibliophile portfolio for which four visual artists each complete one part, in cooperation with the writers. The fifth part is the collection of the writers’ personal impressions. Produced by The Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers in association with the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Medium: Mixed printing media
Dimensions: 540 mm x 375 mm x 36 mm
Edition size: 35

Untitled (GB/30765)
Kristina Selmeine (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium. Inscription: Signed, numbered and dated on back cover

Medium: Intaglio, handwriting and chine collé
Dimensions: 475mm x 205mm (closed) 475mm x 1400mm (open)
Edition size: 3

It’s your world, take it back! (GB/30764)
Neomi Klein (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Medium: Intaglio, paint and chine collé
Dimensions: 3000 mm circ
Edition size: c5

Belgium Luxembourg (GB/30761)
Karin Bos (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Inscription: Signed, date and numbered bottom left.
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 250mm x 110mm (closed) 500mm x 650mm (open)
Edition size: c5

Untitled (GB/30763)
Artist unknown (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Medium: Intaglio, paint and chine collé
Dimensions: 230mm x 130mm (closed) 500mm x 750mm (open)
Edition size: c5

Untitled (GB/30762)
Artist unknown (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Inscription: Signed, numbered and dated on back cover Medium: Pre-printed media with stamps
Dimensions: 260mm x 125mm (closed)
260mm x 330mm (open)
Edition size: c5

De Vaert (GB/30766)
Veerle Rooms (2002)

Completed during a workshop on The Intimate Book held at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.

Inscription: Signed, numbered and dated on back cover
Medium: Digital printing, intaglio with chine collé
Dimensions: 150mm x 190mm (envelope) 135mm x 162mm
Edition size: c5

Nine (GB/30755)
Lynwood Jenkins and Sipho Hlati (2007)

A Cultural Residency realising a dialogue between Sipho Hlati (images) and Lynwood Jenkins (texts) from Fulton County, Atlanta, GA, whose father was killed in Vietnam.

Inscription: Signed, numbered and dated by both participants on internal cover folds. Acetate sheet signed and numbered.
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 300mm x 210mm (closed)
450mm x 495mm (open)
Edition size: 9

The Father, the Son and the Gift of Noble Silence (GB/30719)
Lynwoodt B. Jenkins (2007)

A memory book and dedication for the artist’s father. Acetate as a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of memory. Its vertical form reads as a tomb stone.

Inscription: Signed and numbered on inside back cover
Medium: Digital laser printing
Dimensions: 295mm x 105mm
Edition size: 30

Padre a mi lado (GB/30716)
Alicia Candiari (2008)

A memory book for the artist’s father as a private space responding to sacred spaces and stones in Buenos Aires. Viewed upright or folded out flat.

Inscription: Signed by artist on inside back cover
Medium: Digital printing
Dimensions: 130mm x 87mm
Edition size: 15

Before I Wake (GB/30737)
Jill Larsen (2001)

Based upon the theme of childbirth, the height of the book when flat is the artist’s height.

Inscription: Signed numbered and inscribed ‘Thanks to Fulton County Arts Council’ inside back cover
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 100mm x 100m
Edition size: 30

A Women’s Vision (GB/30741)
Bronwen Findlay, Patricia Hurl, Pip Curling, Bongi Bengu, Semina Mpofu, Mildred Thompson, Faiza Galdhari, Elaine Kennedy, Cristina Cardenas, Grace Tshikuvhe, Lynn Vernell Marshall, Sophie Peters, Sheila Flynn, Lynne Allen and Deborah Bell (2002)

Exploration of the multi-faceted experiences of women at the cusp of the millennium. Collective memories, histories, shared dreams and storytelling in search for common ground. Part of the first Hourglass Residency Programme in collaboration with The Fulton County Arts Council with 15 participating artists from South Africa, USA, Mexico, Ireland and Zimbabwe.

Inscription: Signed, numbered and dated on back cover
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 220mm x 220mm
Edition size: 50

Personal Vocabulary (GB/30731)
Jessica Care Moore (2007)

Three poems on personal vocabulary and notions of selfhood by this Atlanta poet.

Medium: Embossing and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 220mm x 85mm
Edition size: 30

Wedding (GB/30729)
Tina Smith (2005)

Images of domesticity and the sensuality of the ingredients of life based on a photograph of the artist’s parent’s wedding.

Inscription: Signed, dated and numbered inside back cover Medium: Embossing and screenprint
Dimensions: 302mm x 135mm
Edition size: 20

I Find Myself Wandering (GB/30739)
Chris Cozier (2000)

Trinidadian experiences of racial stereotyping.

Inscription: Signed, numbered dated and titled on inside cover tab
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 330mm x 198mm
Edition size: 30

Passages through Poetry (GB/30735)
Mendy Knott (2001)

Ecclesiastical themes explored through a large vertical double gate-fold binding with hand-written text/images as a series of foldouts.

Inscription: Signature and date inside back cover fold. Numbered inside front cover fold
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 500mm x 175mm
Edition size: 20

The Re: Initiative (GB/30725)
Students of Vega School (2006)

VEGA student workshop on branding Caversham by walking the labyrinth at the river. Each student imagines Caversham as a concept of ‘re-sharing’.

Medium: Linocut, monoprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 145mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

3 Statements (GB/30707)
Marion Arnold (2009)

Personal statements contesting binary thinking: NOT either/or but and; black and white but grey; here or there but in between.

Inscription: Signed and numbered on back page
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 207mm x 185mm
Edition size: 30

Untitled (Series of 6 books) (GB/30756)
Gregor Turk, Famhu Pecou, Marshal Walker Lee and Colbert Mashile (2008)

Humorous visual dialogues between participants who react to one another’s imagery and ideas.

Medium: Collage, hand drawing, painting and screenprinted covers
Dimensions: 142mm x 145mm
Edition size: 10

The Story of Caversham (GB/30706)
Tony Bingham and Mxolisi Nyezwa (2009)

Pin-hole camera images about portals as a series.

Medium: Digital laser printing
Dimensions: 100mm x 145mm
Edition size: 30

Ukumbulaesinye isiqu sami (GB/30723)
Gabisile Nkosi (2006)

Linocuts embodying notions of individual and family life. The title ponders on revealing another self.

Medium: Shweshwe cloth and linocut
Dimensions: 210mm x 180mm
Edition size: 10

Kumhandi ukuba nawe (GB/30724)
Gabisile Nkosi (2006)

Linocuts embodying notions of individual and family life. The title ponders on the hardships of being with another.

Medium: Shweshwe cloth and linocut
Dimensions: 142mm x 145mm
Edition size: 10

Caversham Press Bookbinding Series. Case Binding (GB/30740)
Johann Maree and Magda van Staden (2000)

A manual on case bindings in a step-by-step format.

Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 215mm x 143mm
Edition size: Unnumbered

Tonki le Pitse (GB/30745)
Tshepo Mokgatle (1998)

Ideas based upon notions of food using animal metaphors.

Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 235mm x 240mm
Edition size: 20

Ra and Ma (GB/30738)
Elza Botha (2000)

A cross-cultural project in which the text and picturing across front and back cover and the page spreads are woodcuts executed by Botha, in response to the Genesis creation story as related by Selekane Rakgoathe.

Inscription: Signed, dated and editioned on last page
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 175mm x 222mm
Edition size: 25

Walking the Earth (GB/30712)
Mxolisi Nyezwa, Bongumusa Hlongwa (2009)

Ideas concerning existence and living coming from New Brighton in Port Elizabeth.

Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 290mm x 105mm
Edition size: 30

Pause Performance (GB/30718)
Lebogang Mashile (2000)

Poems in relation to pauses and performativity in and of life.

Inscription: Signed, dated and numbered inside front cover
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 150mm x 105mm
Edition size: 30

Diphatsha tsa kola - Pieces of a crown (GB/30728)
Maserame June Madingwane (2001)

Series of poems on themes of celebration of freedom.

Inscription: Signed, dated and numbered on flap of front cover
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 210mm x 150mm
Edition size: 30

Ihambo iyazilawula (GB/30734)
Xolile Mtakatya (2001)

Exploration of personal identity and the creation of a personal ‘passport’.

Inscription: Signed top of first interior page
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 203mm x 140mm
Edition size: 20

A Penny for your Thoughts (GB/30711)
Witty Nyide, Sabelo Khumalo, Tony Bingham, Geoff Johnson, Hlengiwe Dlamini, Mxolisi Nyewza, Bongumusa Hlongwa and Jjanu Mtheku (2009)

Inter-residency images based upon a concept map made from a brown paper sheet and made into book covers. On-the-spot, creative exploration of ideas and emotive resonances as to the innate sense of a book’s authority by the full Caversham team.

Medium: Painted and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

Anatomy (GB/30713)
Kobus Moolman and Witty Nyide (2008)

Notions of disability and limitations of the body.

Inscription: Signed and numbered by hand by both contributors
Medium: Embossed and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 50

Dynamising (GB/30722)
Vonani Bila, Mpho Ramaano, Bongani Motau, Goodenough Mashego and Alex Ndebele (2006)

A group of poets ‘dynamising’ ideas through a collective poem and interviews on personal histories of each artist.

Medium: Linocut and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

A Journey of Inspiration (GB/30717)
Lungile B. Khumalo, Hlengiwe Mahlangu, Phumelele Mkhwanazi and Nomathemba Ndlovu (2007)

Made during leadership programmes at the centre. Race relations and notions of inspiration for people: having resources inside of oneself. Vision and metaphor reflected in book form as self-reflexive poems and images.

Medium: Paste papers and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

Young Catalysts in Action (GB/30754)
Bongiwe Mkhize, Fanele Cebekhulu, Mthobisi Dubazane, Ntombifuthi Mabanga, Sibusiso Motau, Siyabonga Mafu and Zama Hlongwane (2010)

Poems from eight young people from Rorke’s Drift, Lidgetton, Matubathuba and Harding who became catalysts for the CreACTive Centers.

Medium: Digital laser printing
Dimensions: 210mm x 150mm
Edition size: 15

Our Secret Bond (GB/30720)
R. Parrish Watson and the children from Ulwazi CreACTive Centre (2007)

Workshop on illustrations of stories of childhood and moving from place to place.

Medium: Digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

Caversham as I see it (GB/30721)
Max Makisi Marhanele and Gabisile Nkosi (2007)

Musings and memories of the poet during his time as a school headmaster from Letaba, illustrated by Gabisile Nkosi.

Medium: Linocut and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 30

Our House (GB/30714)
Senamile Zuma, Witty Nyide, Shielagh Bamber, Sne Mkize, Nozipho Zulu, Nonsikelelo Nzimande, Hlengiwe Dlamini, Ayanda Chamane and Kobus Moolman (2008)

Meditations on home based upon the structure of a simple child's drawing of a house.

Medium: Digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 12

Chain Stitch (GB/30743)
Mandy Conidaris, Sheila Flynn, Monique Rudman and Seven Mapula Embroiderers (1998)

Symbols of womanhood: home, food and songs of the soil.

Medium: Embroidered cloth and screenprint
Dimensions: 220mm x 155mm
Edition size: 30

Day in the Life of a Ndebele Village (GB/30744)
Seven Mapula Embroiderers (1998)

Based upon the labours of men and women during a typical day in the life of a Ndebele village.

Medium: Embroidered cloth and screenprint
Dimensions: 230mm x 160mm
Edition size: 30

Day in the Life of Lidgetton (GB/30703)
Masabelaneni Young Printmakers (2016)

Teaching linocut to adolescents through looking at home environments with fresh perspectives and those things which are most important to them.

Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: 215mm x 215mm
Edition size: 30

Inkalankala (GB/30747)
Sizakele Fekude (1998)

A fantasy tale on the theme of a crab wanting to travel from Durban to Johannesburg.

Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 245mm x 145mm
Edition size: 20

Songs From the Earth (GB/30702)
Mxolisi Nyezwa, Vusi Zwane and Simphiwe Chebekhulu (2016)

Songs From the Earth was generated by the final international cultural dialogue residency held a year after the tragic murder of Caversham Programmes Manager, Gabisile Nkosi in 2008. This residency included two writers and two visual artists, one of each from South Africa and Atlanta Georgia USA. Mxolisi Nyezwa wrote the poems during the residency. The final production was only realised in 2016 with the closure of The Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers with images by Simphiwe Chebekhulu, and Vusi Zwane. It provides a fitting requiem and token of appreciation for all those who helped make the centre a place of connection and meaning.

Medium: Screenprint and offset litho
Dimensions: 300mm x 155mm
Edition size: 75

Untitled (Series of Six Books) (GB/30759)
Jeff Rankin, R. Gobardan, Lesley Price, Susan Woolf and D.J. Ndita (2002)

Circular accordion binding books from a workshop exploring ‘Personal Vocabulary’.

Reflective titles are:
Life is full of surprises some are bad and some are good. Focus on good ones. You will smile forever
Feed the Fertile
Maintain
I lived my dream
Protected
1956 - 1999

Inscription: Signed, dated and numbered on various end pages of the books
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 225mm x 210mm
Edition size: c6

Ngazahe ne sinye isiqu sami (GB/30730)
Gabisile Nkosi (2004)

Derived from a woodcut workshop conducted by Jeff Rankin based on the theme of ‘Life as a Frog’ and life in and under water.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 250mm x 210mm
Edition size: 20

Justice (GB/30709)
Amy West (2009)

Notions of justice and memory on the life of Gabisile Nkosi and her death.

Medium: Embossing, collage, screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 110mm
Edition size: 10

SELF, Hand me Down Clothes (GB/30705)
Charlene April Clempson (2012)

Developed from a conference paper text by a visitor from Loughborough, UK. T-shirts connect to a chronology of her own life.

Inscription: Each print signed and numbered
Medium: Linocut, chine collé and digital printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 180mm
Edition size: 30

Brickworks (GB/30708)
F.Geoffrey Johnson and Mxolisi Nyezwa (2009)

Conversations regarding views on Africa using Kente cloth as a signifier of place.

Inscription: Signed by Johnson on inside back cover.
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 208mm x 130mm
Edition size: 45

God Given Birthright (GB/30736)
Willie Little (2001)

Stories and storytelling derived from personal photographs with notions of baggage and the right to bear arms through colour images and blackboard-like texts.

Inscription: Signature on first interior page
Medium: Collagraph, screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 258mm x 188mm
Edition size: 20

Songs of Katie Solomon (GB/30746)
Brian Walters (1998)

Residency of members of the English Department at the University of Fort Hare based upon the ongoing presence of the singer Katie Solomon.

Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 155mm x 108mm
Edition size: 15

Travelogue (GB/30733)
Kevin Sipp (2001)

Themes of Christian and West African worship, also explored in the crucifix binding structure.

Inscription: Signature on first interior page
Medium: Linocut and screenprint
Dimensions: 134mmx 134mm
Edition size: 28

What Sitting Cannot Solve, Travel will Resolve (GB/30753)
Lisa Tuttle (2002)

Images of six chairs screenprinted onto separate cards housed in a screenprinted acetate envelope.

Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 151mm x 198mm
Edition size: 32

Legacy Water (GB/30758)
Series of artists (c2006)

A project for creative directors.

Medium: Drypoint, linocut and chine collé
Dimensions: 198mm x 105mm
Edition size: Unknown

7 Boerneef - Verse (GB/30751)
Piet Grobler (1997)

Made for the Note and Song exhibition at The Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (now Makhanda) in 1998.

Inscription: Signed and dated on first page
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 210mm x 155mm
Edition size: 100

Poems Inspired by ICC Images (GB/30710)

Senamile Zuma, Witty Nyide, Shielagh Bamber, Sne Mkize, Nozipho Zulu, Nonsikelelo Nzimande, Hlengiwe Dlamini, Ayanda Chamane and Kobus Moolman (2009)

Eight poems inspired by images from the International Conference Centre in Durban through a poetry workshop by Kobus Moolman.

Inscription: Signature on first interior page
Medium: Linocut and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

Who Cares what you Think (GB/30715) Colbert Mashile and Marshall Walker Lee (2008)

Satirical conversation between creators on a wide diversity of themes pertaining to life.

Inscription: Signed and hand editioned by the writer on inside back cover
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 30

Lines for Lionel Davis (GB/30727)
Vonani Bila (2005)

Epic poem on the life of Lionel Davis.

Inscription: Numbered, signed and dated on inside back cover
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 185mm x 195mm
Edition size: 30

Evidence of the Spirit in Law (GB/30726)
Nonhlanhla Ndlela, Dumisile Ndlovu, Sonto Nene and Sibongile Mchunu (2006)

Workshop on the Foundation of Society based in Law and the Arts with four paralegals from the Centre for Criminal Justice in Pietermaritzburg. As intermediaries between law and the people, their poems and stories started from exploring significant objects.

Medium: Paste papers and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 215mm x 150mm
Edition size: 10

At Caversham (GB/30748)
Cathal Lagan and Hilary Graham (1998)

Work derived from one of the writing residencies based at The Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers.

Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 214mm x 155mm
Edition size: 75

Vuminkosi Zulu 1948 – 1996 (GB/30750)
Mduduzi Xakaza and Elza Botha (1998)

Illustrated letterpress catalogue for the commemorative exhibition of artist Vuminkosi Zulu who died in 1996, showing his woodcuts, etchings and linocuts exhibited at The Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (now Makhanda) in 1998. The catalogue of work reflects on Zulu’s portrayal of life and the people who populated his world.

Medium: Letterpress and offset litho
Dimensions: 300mm x 130mm
Edition size: Unnumbered

Pages (GB/30767)
Andrew Verster (1985)

Eleven etchings from drawings made in notebooks between June and October 1985 at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Inscription: Signed and numbered on inside colophon page
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 354mm x 248mm
Edition size: 25

Lake (GB/30704)
Marion Arnold (2012)

Lake reflections used as a personal metaphor to reflect on the diasporic condition.

Inscription: Signed and dated by artist on inside front cover
Medium: Linocut and digital text
Dimensions: 150mm x 300mm
Edition size: 30

A Zulu Lightning Show (GB/30757)
Peter Clarke (c2007)

An extended leporello (accordion-fold) collaboration between Peter Clark, Terri Dilling and Gabi Nkosi.

Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 105mm x 110mm
Edition size: Unique

N’ Windjie wat Suis (GB/30749)
Elza Botha (1998)

Nbira imagery realised for the exhibition ‘Note and Song’ (the second part of ‘The Spirit of our Stories’ exhibition, Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown [now Makhanda], 1998). A combined project of The Caversham Press and Educational Trust, taking as a starting point images evoked from sources with strong oral roots such as verse, song and music.

Inscription: Numbered
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 290mm x 170mm
Edition size: 30

Ubu, Limericks & Clerihews (GB/30742)
Robert Hodgins (1998)

On the centenary of the Alfred Jarry play Ubu Roi who is portrayed as the man next door, a villain, Nero, Goering, Idi Amin, all Ubus, all villains.

Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: 250mm x 135mm
Edition size: 75

Ubu, Niles, Brutus (GB/30701)
William Kentridge (2017)

Book created from printed elements derived from video cover for earlier Ubu series from 1998. four pages and two foldout elements.

Inscription: Signed and printed date on back cover
Medium: Letterpress and screenprint
Dimensions: 125mm x 165mm
Edition size: 20

Exile (GB/30732)
Ingrid Winterbach (2001)

Images (in grey), with hand-written texts (in red) based upon a previous short prose piece on the journeys, imagined life and death of Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman (1789-1815).

Inscription: Signed and numbered pack page of leporello pages
Medium: Screenprint and digital laser printing
Dimensions: 220mm x 180mm
Edition size: 30