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…
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…
These poems were written by students from Plashet School, in East Ham, London, in response to some of the strange and amazing hybrid beings they created in the collage activity, during the summer term’s schools workshops. They really capture some of the fascination, and fearful mystery, that the natural world can hold for us. TIME…
These collages were created by students from Brighton Aldridge Academy, during the summer 2019 schools workshops. Participants were challenged to create human-animal hybrid figures, using illustrations from across the Dalziel Archive. Human-animal hybrid figures appeared frequently in Victorian popular culture, especially in children’s fiction, and theatrical entertainments, such as ‘freak’ shows. Workshop students also wrote…
Among the many thousands of illustrations produced by the Brothers Dalziel, images of animals abound. Everything from frogs, cockatoos, and koalas, to starfish and sunflowers, are represented, reflecting the Victorian love of Natural History, and the many popular periodicals, dedicated to the subject, published throughout the nineteenth century. During the Summer 2019 series of workshops,…
This gothic short story was written by two students from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). For more information on their project, click here. The illustrations they have used are unidentified wood engravings by Dalziel after Arthur Hughes, Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188 ‘No!’ the old frail beggar wailed desperately.…
This wood engraving is one of six beautiful ‘lost’ illustrations in the Dalziel Archive. They feature two children as the protagonists, and include an uncanny monk, a pack of wolves, and haunting images of darkness and exploration. We have not yet discovered what book or magazine story they illustrate. The research team would love to…
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…
raughtsponship, or, ‘one small step for a pon; one giant leap for ponkind’ For International Women’s Day we’re proposing a new word: p’on. The word grew from a text conversation between Madeleine Hallward and Isabel Seligman and myself, and we hope it’s a useful addition to the language. For me, the need arose while writing…
Elle Whitcroft is a PhD student in the English department at the University of Sussex. Her research looks at late nineteenth and early twentieth century newspaper comic strips in the US and UK, focusing on childhood, dreams and racism. Here, Whitcroft reviews Simon Grennan’s Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval, available now at bookworks.org. Remembering Marie…
Click images above to explore gallery As part of the Dalziel Project, contemporary printmakers have been collaborating with researchers, exploring the archive in the British Museum (see more here). This has generated new work in dialogue with the Dalziels. Bethan Stevens recently wrote about this in Printmaking Today, focusing on the recent Dalziel-related work of Neil…
As part of the Dalziel Project, contemporary printmakers have been collaborating with researchers, exploring the archive in the British Museum. This has generated new work in dialogue with the Dalziels. Bethan Stevens has written about this in Printmaking Today, focusing on the recent Dalziel-related work of Neil Bousfield, Louise Hayward, Chris Pig and Peter S. Smith: you…
Carey Gibbons recently completed a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art: The Limits of the Body in Victorian Illustration: Arthur Hughes and Frederick Sandys. Gibbons’s research crosses disciplines, engaging with the illustrations of Hughes and Sandys in relation to their accompanying texts and Victorian science, religion, and gender constructions. She recently curated an exhibition at the…
Click images above to explore gallery As part of the Dalziel Project, contemporary printmakers have been collaborating with researchers, exploring the archive in the British Museum (see more here). This has generated new work in dialogue with the Dalziels. Bethan Stevens recently wrote about this in Printmaking Today, focusing on the recent Dalziel-related work of Neil…
Click images above to view gallery As part of the Dalziel Project, contemporary printmakers have been collaborating with researchers, exploring the archive in the British Museum (see more here). This has generated new work in dialogue with the Dalziels. Bethan Stevens recently wrote about this in Printmaking Today, focusing on the recent Dalziel-related work of Neil…
![Dalziel engraving Graveyard scene, after Charles Green for Charles Dickens, 'The Old Curiosity Shop’, The Household Edition (London: Chapman & Hall, [1876]). First issued in parts.](http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/dalziel/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/35_p044_detail.jpg)
Here we present a selection of students’ work produced in early 2018 as part of our ongoing collaborative project with UCA Rochester. The images are taken from both developmental work and from final pieces, all of which engage with the Dalziel Archive photographically. Students used photography in mixed-media reproductions and reinventions of Dalziel engravings (John…
Earlier this year, young artists at UCA Rochester developed responses to the Dalziel Archive as part of our continuing collaboration. They researched the Dalziel Archive and the Alice to Alice: Dalziel 1865–71 online exhibition and produced new works of art responding to its themes–particularly temporality and sequence. Jemima Woolnough created a sculptural-photographic project, constructing a…
Our ongoing collaboration with UCA Rochester asked artists aged 16–17 to produce a creative response to the Dalziel project, reflecting particularly on themes of sequence and temporality. Lucie Stewart developed a project on ageing and the material book, drawing on the ‘Making Prints and Books’ section of the Alice to Alice: Dalziel 1865–1871 online exhibition.…
For the second year running, we have collaborated on a project for 16- to 18-year-old art students at UCA Rochester, where students were prompted to develop a sequential set of images inspired by images from the Dalziel archive. Lauren Tearle created a series of collages influenced by the Dalziel engravings of John Tenniel’s ‘The Garden…