The Caversham Press
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The Caversham Press was founded in 1985 to afford South African artists access to a professional coll
The Caversham Press was established in 1985, by Malcolm Christian in the picturesque Caversham Valley just outside Howick, South Africa. The location of Caversham signalled that The Press was to be an unconventional player in the art world. It was not situated in an urban metropolis but in the countryside in an old, decommissioned Wesleyan Methodist Church on a hill above the rushing Lions River. Malcolm Christian converted the church into the studio and built family home from recycled material s from demolishers. The garden is a peaceful space incorporating the graveyard Headstones. At first The Caversham Press echoed Western models, providing technical support and facilities to individual artists wishing to make prints for their own exhibitions, while commissioned portfolios such as the Johannesburg Centenary Print Portfolio (1986), were produced for articular events
After the first exhibition, Five Years at The Caversham Press (1990; eighty works by 26 artists) a change of direction occurred: Malcolm Christian decided to formulate workshop themes and invite a wide range of artists to contribute to Caversham concepts. He had already begun reaching out beyond the framework of trained artists and was running workshop programmes with artists in township communities. His premise was that interaction and dialogue were the foundation of collaboration, itself a process intrinsic to print production in which a master printer assumes a prominent role. Over the past 27 years at the Caversham Press Malcolm Christian has work with the likes of many prominent artists, both local and international
28/03/2025
Some great specials with up to 50% off certain items, but only until the end of the month.
LAST week of our March Madness SALE!
Don't miss some great specials on a selection of our old and new favourites.
Head on over to our online shop and get yours today, while stocks last.
04/02/2025
Happy heavenly birthday dear Gabi ♡ Your life was a gift to so many others!
17/06/2024
We have 5 large screens available for silkscreen. 180 x 130cm, 90T
Link to Marketplace listing below:
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02/06/2024
We are still looking for a new home for our Textile equipment. Please get in touch should you be interested.
28/05/2024
*** SOLD***
Our exquisite Windsor & Newton Plan Chest is for sale. We were desperate to hang onto this particular beauty but unfortunately we cannot.
It will need a new top, otherwise it is in amazing condition.
Dimensions:
146cm Wide x 94cm High x 75cm Deep
Width bottom drawers: 66 x 58cm
3 slide out drawers: 107x 70 x5cm
2 small shelves on RH side: 70 x 24 x 9cm
Price: R18 000
Collection must be arranged by buyer.
Please let us know if you are interested by commenting below or sending us a message on The Caversham Press page.
We may put this through a bidding process should there be a couple of interested parties.
19/02/2024
Reading the responses to the closing of Caversham Press has been truly humbling. Thank you all. The ending of the Caversham dream has begun the process of unbundling the studio, finding suitable homes for precious pieces of equipment gathered over more than fifty years. This whilst remembering the technical challenges that each artist's image required, some more successful than others, but each leaving imprint on paper and memory. Some memories accompanied by the shadows of good intentions hovering around things left incomplete - now with the uncomfortable realization that we cannot go back. That this was a life lived.
However, all said, the most important and precious aspects were the relationships formed; the trust given and nurtured through the time spent collaborating in the realization of image and project during single or multiple visits to the Caversham studio. So your responses provide me with the understanding that the valued legacy of a life rests in the memories that others carry forward. It is with immense gratitude that I take these to heart.
- Malcolm
09/02/2024
The end of an Era! Equipment for sale.
It is with great sadness that we have closed The Caversham Press as a Printing Studio. However we hope that our passion for Fine Art Printmaking will live on in another studio as our Equipment find new printmakers to continue the tradition.
All of our equipment is currently for sale, including:
> Screenprinting
> Etching
> Vander Cook Proofing Press
> as well as other items
We also have a 12mt screenprinting Table and a curing oven available for Textile Printing.
Please send us a direct message should you be interested in any of the items and we can provide you with further information.
All items are ex-Caversham with the removal and any transport cost for the buyer to arrange.
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Caversham Valley Road
Howick
3270
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