Oriole Press

An artists’ imprint for experimental reading and writing.


Oriole Press is run by artist, designer & facilitator francis burger, and friends. It exists to make room for love letters from infatuated disciples, for books about books, and whip scorpions.

Oriole Press is named after the Black-Headed Oriole that frequents the pockets of broad-leaved endemics that hug the  north-facing (frost-sheltered) ridges of Johannesburg’s peri-urban neighbourhoods – the Oriole stays a little out of sight but pronounces itself through its loud whistles and imitations, and its distinctive ‘liquid-sounding warble’ (a perfect description via wikipedia and a recording of the call below, the warble is about mid-way).

   


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Oriole Press is run by artist, designer & facilitator francis burger, and friends. It exists to make room 


All PublicationsDrawing is Still Writing
DRAWING
IS STILL
WRITING

Drawing is still writing, Nyakallo Maleke. 32 pages with loose inserts, risograph printed in an edition of 40 at Keleketla/Wits School of Arts. Single Thread sewn by Pulp Paperworks. Publication design & editing by francis burger. Published by Oriole Press in collaboration with Nyakallo Maleke. Johannesburg. 2023. ISBN 978-0-7961-3650-3

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Image: Details from ‘Drawing is still writing’, Nyakallo Maleke, 2023.

Drawing is still writing shares a series of drawings performed for the risograph printer over a few hot days and nights in summer 2023. The drawings were collated alongside a short text ‘Draw’, written by Maleke earlier in the year, and the prompts, notes and marks that emerged from their sandwich’ing. 


“Drawing has always been conversational, an outspoken friend.” 
—‘Draw’, Nyakallo Maleke, 2023



Image: Details from ‘Drawing is still writing’, Nyakallo Maleke, 2023.
Drawing is still writing is one of many careful, specific experiments within Maleke’s ongoing practice of responsive mark-making and compilation – a growing lexicon of “adapting to spaces that refuse to change”, of re-telling, re-learning, re-imagining... of mapping, repetition, layering, and laying out... of vulnerability, and ‘learning to re...st’.

*Nyakallo Maleke is an artist, writer and cyclist from Johannesburg.
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Drawing is still writing
Nyakallo Maleke
2023 

32 pages with loose inserts, risograph printed in an edition of 40.

publication design & editing by francis burger

printed at the Wits School of Arts with the RISO SF5030 acquired by Keleketla! Library and Another Roadmap Africa Cluster with additional ink drums by Wits Fine Art

Oriole Press in collaboration with Nyakallo Maleke

Johannesburg

2023

ISBN 978-0-7961-3650-3

Image: Poster for ‘Drawing is still writing’, reading event, Nyakallo Maleke & francis burger, 2023. Hosted at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (more).


Oriole Press
Johannesburg, 2001.
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