WELCOME TO STOEP COLLECTIVE
we build worlds
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Stoep Collective builds the language, lore and editorial architecture behind cultural projects, luxury brands, films, exhibitions and institutions
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We work with designers, artists, curators, directors and creative teams to craft texts with atmosphere and authority
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Rooted in our adoptive home town of London but working globally, our clients reside in Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Zanzibar London and Cape Town
PORTAL // PORTENT
In the southern hemisphere, a stoep is a liminal space between inner and outer realms. It may be a humble verandah or an opulent terrace. Either way, this transient place is for gatherings, prayer, banqueting and dancing; for communing with the divine, or peeling carrots and potatoes
TALISMAN // TRANSFORM
For Tolstoy, there was Anna Karenina. For Agnes Varda, people who were landscapes. Both artists understood the power of language: language as text, language as image, and how both can transform
COMMISSIONS
Written artefacts for brands, artists, cinematic projects and directors who build worlds
PURPOSE //
From scripts and curatorial texts to brand accompaniments, these are world-building commissions: atmospheric, strategic documents that construct mythology, sensory register and editorial voice
PROJECTS //
Spanning platforms, geographies and industries, Stoep Collective creates textual universes that capture audiences, from focused editorials to fuller narrative architecture
PACKAGES //
Our packages are designed as flexible entry points into Stoep’s work. Should your project have more particular requirements, we can shape a bespoke package to suit your needs
CERIDWIN EYRE ATELIER
Editorial Strategy, Digital Media Language, Product Storytelling and Artist Positioning
“Porcelain with purpose” — Ceridwin Eyre Atelier
Stoep Collective worked with artist and atelier, Ceridwin Eyre, to shape the online approach around her practice. Rooted in porcelain, ritual object-making, sculpture, fashion and poetry, Ceridwin Eyre is “…an artist living on the periphery of Persephone.”
To have long-admired Ceridwin’s translations of her psychic and physical experiences, with her porcelain candle holders and artwork adorning our home, it was a wonder to step into her world, in an act of stewardship that elevated our own practice and deepened our appreciation for an Atlantic Ocean-tinged aesthetic.
For fashion houses, ateliers, studios and luxury object-makers, the written word is both mark and meaning, the field to sew into. A rush, a breeze.
A dance.
Read more about our work with Ceridwin Eyre.
SELECTED PROJECTS
BATIS BOOKS
Edinburgh publisher // named for a small bird found in southern Africa
“An armful of good books a year” — Batis Books
Stoep Collective works with Batis Books, an Edinburgh-based independent publisher linking writing from Scotland and southern Africa, Ireland and the wider Southern Hemisphere.
Batis’ early list is already formidable: Antjie Krog, Athambile Masola, Pravasan Pillay, Cynthia Fan, C. J. Driver and others, with Dayspring, Driver’s memoir of political resistance, edited and introduced by J. M. Coetzee, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Through a range of editorial support, we have helped launch this new press into the British and Irish publishing industry.
Read more about our ongoing partnership with Batis Books.
Nĩĩthũĩ DOCUMENTARY FILM
Editorial Strategy, Digital Media Language, Product Storytelling and Artist Positioning
“A collaborative remembering of the Mau Mau Liberation Movement across generations” — Joni Els
Nĩ ithũĩ, Ni Sisi, We are is a collaborative remembering of the Mau Mau liberation movement across generations by Istanbul-based documentary filmmaker and Senior Producer for Al Jazeera English, Joni Els.
Els commissioned Stoep Collective to create materials for the 2022 film, with the explicit requirement that it both honours the intergenerational memory and legacy of Kenya’s Mau Mau liberation movement.
Read more about our work with Joni Els
