Speaking at the History of the Printed Image Network (HoPIN)

As part of the University of Wolverhampton's Artsfest Online programme this event launches the new History of the Printed Image Network (HoPIN), which aims to connect those interested in the history of printed images, including (but not limited to) artistic prints, book illustration, chapbooks, ballad-sheets, maps, photographs, transfer-prints, etc.

The webinar was introduced by John Hinks co-ordinator of HoPIN, Honorary Research Fellow in Printing History and Culture at Birmingham City University and was recorded on 30th November 2020.

Speakers included: Rose Roberto: In search of Walter Crane’s earliest published illustrations. Sibylle Erle: Images in Illuminated Printing: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Amy Webster: ‘I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then’: exploring the repackaging of classic children’s books in modern series. John Grayson: The transferred image: from eighteenth-century enamel to contemporary craft. Brian Maidment: New books on old prints. Laura Onions: The Dudley writing cards (1928): printing into painting into writing.