Click here for information about the Dalziel Project’s new book, and here to read the project’s research output in Textual Practice. The Dalziel project would not be possible without funding from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), as well as the generous support of our project partners, The British Museum and Sylph Editions. In particular,…
Responding to Collections
BACA students joined us once again for two online events of talks and creative activities with a group of experts and artists. Each activity involved working with archival material, or thinking about how archival material might be used as a creative prompt. Have a look below at the activity instructions from each contributor if you…
Unlocking the archive
I have been very fortunate spend recent months curating Beyond the Archive, an online of critical and creative writing drawings and prints by Year 7 students of Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). This group is undertaking a series of structured workshops (to resume when the school re-opens) devised by teachers Lauren Howfield and Emily Jewell,…
Wood Engraving for Science
A team from the University of Sussex went to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff to celebrate Super Science Saturday in October 2019. We had an amazing time; nearly 300 people came to participate. We looked at image-making technologies, from wood engraving and photography to digital media. Participants worked with archival images from scientific…
Celebrating Wood Engraving with the V&A and the Society of Wood Engravers
N.B. The two events described here are linked, but either event can also stand-alone if you wish to attend just one of them. 1. Curating relief printmaking, 23rd March, 2-4pm An unusual tour of Making an Impression: the Art of Relief Printmaking, in which co-curators Annemarie Bilclough and Katharine Martin reflect on the impossible task…
Beyond the Archive: Creative Engagements from Plashet School, BACA, Priory School, Blatchington Mill and North Notts College
During the 2019 summer term, the Dalziel Project ran a series of workshops with schools in Sussex and London, introducing 150 new students to archival research, and complementing their curriculum learning through creative tasks in English, History, and Art. The one-day sessions took place at Plashet School in East Ham, London (27th May); Blatchington Mill…
Engraved in Time: UCA Student Collaboration, 2018
We were very pleased this year to continue our collaboration with the University of the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent. In 2017, we piloted the project with 16- to 18-year-old students taking the Extended Diploma in Art and Design at UCA, which you can read more about here: ‘Engraved in Time: Reimagining the Dalziel Brothers’.…
Woodpeckings: Victorian prints, book illustration and word-image narratives, British Museum, 16-17 June 2017
Friday 16th – Saturday 17th June 9am-5pm Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Registration for this event is now closed. Conference Programme Book for conference drinks & buffet This two-day event presents new perspectives on Victorian prints, book illustration and word-image narratives, brought into dialogue with scholarly interpretations of the Dalziel Archive, a phenomenal resource for…
Caught in Time
We are currently planning a co-curated, touring digital exhibition on Victorian illustration and its relationship to contemporary art, including wood engraving, illustration and digital art forms. The exhibition has the working title Caught in Time and will be hosted at public libraries and university digital humanities labs nationwide, installed through multiple screens and projection. The travelling display…
Re-imagining the Dalziels: National Art and Design Saturday Club Masterclass, University of the Creative Arts, 29 April 2017
On Saturday 29th April 2017 the Dalziel Project ran a masterclass for the National Art and Design Saturday Club at the University of the Creative Arts, Rochester. The Saturday Club is an independent charity working with 13-16 year olds and dedicated to raising attainment, broadening horizons and enhancing life skills. Hosting their sessions in museums and universities across the UK,…
Victorian trade engraving and contemporary practice workshop, British Museum, 8th April 2017
The Dalziel Public and Educational Programme aims to extend the reach of the Dalziel Project beyond the realms of academia and encourage schools, art clubs, artists, designers, historians, and interested individuals to engage with the archive. On Saturday 8th April 2017, we were joined in the Prints and Drawings study room at the British Museum…
‘Engraved in Time: Re-imagining the Dalziels’ at the University of the Creative Arts, 14 February 2017
Over the past year we have been developing an educational programme to enable schools and colleges to support their courses of study using material from the Dalziel Archive. From 30 Jan – 14 Feb 2017 we piloted a project with sixty 16 to 18- year-old students taking the Extended Diploma in Art and Design at…
Seascapes and The Arctic ~ Creative Writing Workshop, British Museum, 3rd December 2016
An afternoon of talks and creative writing practice around the collections of the British Museum’s department of Prints and Drawings, led by Forward Prize short-listed poet Nancy Campbell, and Bethan Stevens (University of Sussex). This session included creative writing and discussion focussed on wood engravings from the Dalziel Archive in the British Museum. During the afternoon, Nancy Campbell…
Alice to Alice: Dalziel 1865 – 1871 Launch, University of Sussex, 21st September 2016
Launch event ~ virtual exhibition ~ Alice to Alice: Dalziel 1865 -1871. With talks by Hannah Field, George Mind, Nicholas Royle, Isabel Seligman, Lindsay Smith and Bethan Stevens. At the University of Sussex, Digital Humanities Lab, and online at www.sussex.ac.uk/English/Dalziel
Lost Letters ~ Creative Writing Workshop, University of Sussex, 16th September 2016
Lost Letters: a creative writing workshop on wood engraving and the archive, led by Bethan Stevens. University of Sussex, School of English. Extracts from the workshop were selected and read at our exhibition exhibition launch by Isabel Seligman (British Museum).
TALK: ‘Medium and the Archive (Victorian Wood Engravings, for example)’, BAVS Talks, University of Sussex, 9th May 2016
Bethan Stevens, ‘Medium and the Archive (Victorian Wood Engravings, for example)’ at BAVS Talks 2016,University of Sussex, .
TALK: ‘The Wood-Engraver’s Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Brothers 1839-1893’, Birkbeck, 23rd February 2016
Bethan Stevens, ‘The Wood-Engraver’s Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Brothers 1839-1893’ at Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, 23rd February 2016