A personal practice · Predates Atelier V.V.
Letterpress.
A practice that
started before
the wallpaper.
Before Atelier V.V., there was a press and a love of type. What started as a volunteer at the Industriemuseum Ghent became a quiet ongoing practice, open to artists, writers, and the right project.
Type set by hand.
A practice that
never quite stopped.
It started as a volunteer in the typography workshop at the Industriemuseum Ghent, working with type cases, hand composition, and the particular discipline of setting text in metal.
The letterpress predates Atelier V.V. by several years. When the wallpaper atelier was built, the press came with it, not as a commercial offering, but as a continuing practice. Working with poets, visual artists, graphic designers, and local makers whose projects have the right fit for a hand press and careful composition.
These are not Atelier V.V. projects. They are collaborations between a printer and people who know what they want from a printed object. The work is made here, in the same workshop, with the same attention, but the frame is different. Smaller, quieter, more personal.
The work.
Each project was different in brief, in material, and in outcome. What they share is that they were all made with full attention and the right tool. Bust most of all, it was good fun making it.
Tweeluik
Petra Van den Berghe & Isabel Devos
A poem on one side. Photographs on the other. One object, two artists, two faces. A tweeluik in the truest sense.
Petra Van den Berghe is a poet who came to her own work late. Her poems travel on the poetry bus — arriving at stops, finding people who weren't looking for them.
The poem was hand-set in metal type and printed by letterpress — the full discipline of composition by hand, proofing, and a final impression on paper.
Isabel Devos — visual artist, photographer, graduate of KASK Ghent, whose contemplative landscape work has shown at the Belgian Embassy in The Hague and the Belgian Office in Taipei — glued her photographs on the other side of the paper. Two works that complete each other without explaining each other.
Catalogue cover
Jasper Rigole · Éditions Ménard
A blind embossed catalogue cover.
Jasper Rigole's exhibitions at the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke and Hilde Vandaele Gallery in Watou were both published under Éditions Ménard. This is the catalogue for that work.
Notebook cover
Egon Van Herreweghe · Éditions Ménard
Wrapping paper for waffle notebook.
Egon Van Herreweghe is a Ghent artist. His exhibitions have included FOAM Amsterdam and Kunsthal Ghent.
The Brussels waffle notebook, an embossed cover and letterpress printed wrapping paper, edition of 25, presented at Artist Print XII in Schaerbeek in January 2025
A neighbour.
IJzerkotmolen.
We print the flour bags for IJzerkotmolen, one of the oldest mills in Flanders, and our neighbour in Sint-Maria-Latem.
Their flour is delivered to some of the best bakeries and restaurants in Belgium. Two makers in the same place, both insisting on doing things properly. That is reason enough.
This is not an artist collaboration. It is simpler than that, a local relationship, a practical thing, made with care because that is the only way we know how to work.
