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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, curators, directors and creative teams to craft texts with atmosphere and authority, especially when work has shed its original brand language

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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

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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

For founders, creative directors, filmmakers, curators and luxury teams whose projects require new depth and charge.

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

Commission Stoep

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SELECTED COMMISSIONS

CERIDWIN EYRE ATELIER

Editorial Strategy, Digital Media Language, Product Storytelling & Artist Positioning

“Porcelain with purpose” — Ceridwin Eyre Atelier

Stoep Collective worked with artist and atelier Ceridwin Eyre — “an artist living on the periphery of Persephone” — to refine the language around her online presence, bringing together porcelain, poetry, sculpture, ritual object-making, fashion and her studio practice.

Our work moved Ceridwin’s narrative from product-led storytelling toward a fuller expression of Ceridwin as an artist in her own right. We shaped the tone of her digital platforms, clarified the relationship between Ceridwin Eyre and Klei Klei, and developed a way of speaking about her practice that could encapsulate the intimacy of her handmade objects and the broader mythology of her art.

We contextualised Ceridwin’s practice inside a deeper universe, honouring the dance between clay and poetry, object and atmosphere, domestic ritual and artistic life.

For fashion houses, ateliers, studios and luxury object-makers, the written word can charge a work with meaning and power that bewitches, transfixes and enthrall audiences, readers and clientele alike.

Read more about our work with Ceridwin Eyre.

White ceramic plate with green and blue marbled pattern.
A black and white photo of a sunflower in a large ceramic vase, with framed pictures or artwork in the background, on a table with some scattered small items and leaves.
A woman with shoulder-length hair and a patterned necklace is looking at a bowl, possibly containing a pet or object, on a table. In the background, there is a giraffe figurine or stuffed animal and some shelves.

BATIS BOOKS

Edinburgh publisher named for a small bird found throughout 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’ 2026 list is somewhat 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 in 2003.

Through a range of editorial support, we have helped launch this new press into the British and Irish publishing landscape.

Read more about our ongoing partnership with Batis Books

Three portraits: an older woman with white hair and glasses, an African American woman in a patterned dress sitting barefoot, and a black-and-white photo of a young man in 1960s attire with a tie, standing outdoors with blurred people in the background.
A floral arrangement with a mix of colorful flowers including pink, purple, white, and black, arranged on a white surface with a quote about Cynthia Fan and Among Willows.
A woman is standing at a table displaying books and paper artworks, with shelves in the background holding ceramic and pottery items, and a tall bamboo vase with a plant on the table.

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

A collage of black-and-white photographs of people protesting, some holding signs, and an older man sitting with arms crossed. There is a mix of images including people walking, speaking, and gesturing. The collage is overlaid with a colorful, stylized map of the world. Handwritten text at the bottom reads, "A COLLABORATIVE REMEMBERING OF THE MAU MAU LIBERATION MOVEMENT ACROSS GENERATIONS."
Artistic collage with a man in a suit and tie, with sunglasses, standing in front of a colorful background, and a woman in traditional African attire raising her hand.
A handwritten note on paper that reads, 'A collaborative remembering of the Mau Mau liberation movement across generations'.