Oliver Barstow has over a decade of experience as a designer, editor and book publisher in the visual arts sector. He has worked with, amongst others, the artist William Kentridge on a number of book projects and collaborated with numerous publishers, including Field Essays (The Netherlands), Walther König (Germany), Yale/Mercatorfonds (Belgium), Hatje Cantz (Germany), Sternberg Press (Germany), the Aperture Foundation (United States), Photoworks (United Kingdom) and the Venice Biennale. He is currently the Managing Editor of the Sandberg Series (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a book series published by Sternberg Press, and the Online Editor of the Sandberg Series Journal. He is also the Online Editor for ZAM Magazine (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). In 2010, he co-founded and was Director of Fourthwall Books (Johannesburg, South Africa), an independent art book publisher with upwards of 50 titles in its catalogue, distributed by Idea Books (Europe) and ARTBOOK|DAP (North America). In 2018 he was recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds Talent Development Award and in 2015, the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarship, for which he completed an MFA in Art and Design at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Sandberg Series #6

Sandberg Series #5

Sandberg Series #4

Sandberg Series #3

Sandberg Series #2

Sandberg Series #1

William Kentridge—Footnotes for the Panther

William Kentridge—Smoke, Ashes, Fable

William Kentridge—NO IT IS!

William Kentridge—2nd Hand Reading

William Kentridge—NO, IT IS

William Kentridge—Fire Walker

How to think like a mountain in a land of sea

Sometimes I make money one day of the week

After the Mines

What remains is tomorrow

The Johannesburg Gas Works

HandBook: South African Artists

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #9

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #8

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #7

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #6

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #5

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #4

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #3

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #2

Wake Up, This is Joburg Book #1

Writing the City into Being

Milnerton Market

Figuring Faith: Images of Belief in Africa

EOAN: Our Story

Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices

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