HoPIN Launch Event (History of the Printed Image Network) 

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Launch event for a network that is aimed at a mix of practitioners in printed illustration.

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 will be introduced by John Hinks co-ordinator of HoPIN, Honorary Research Fellow in Printing History and Culture at Birmingham City University.

There is no charge for membership or for online events. The network – which is part of the Centre for Printing History and Culture (a joint venture of Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham) – is open to anyone interested in printed images: academics, curators, printmakers and other practitioners, in fact anyone with an interest in the field. The only limitation is that HoPIN focuses on the history of the printed image rather than current practice, except of course where practice is informed by historical awareness. To join HoPIN, email the network co-ordinator: john.hinks@bcu.ac.uk

Speakers include:

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.

Artsfest 2020

Beatrice Warde's VE Day Diary - A reading by Jessica Glaser / Liz Berry and Tom Hicks: In Conversation / In Conversation: Artist Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill Part 1 / Dr Max Stewart and Glass Artist Allister Malcolm in Conversation / Lisa Blower and Rob Francis in conversation / Louise Fenton - Lethal in Lace: The Story of a Witchcraft Poppet / Finding our Funny Roots: delving into Black Country humour / Books Across the Sea - Talk by Jessica Glaser / Dr Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill from IKON In conversation Pt2 / The Rise of Mass Fashion in the Black Country, Talk by Dr Jenny Gilbert / VJ Day Diary of Beatrice Warde - Reading By Jessica Glaser / Printing and Print Culture in the Midlands: a Webinar / Black Country Geopoetics, Talk and Workshop with Writer R.M. Francis / The Haunted and Cursed Dolls in Greyfriars Bothy, Dr Louise Fenton / Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles at Seventy, a talk by Dr Phil Nichols / Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century: Webinar Book / We are Invisible, We are Visible / HoPIN Launch Event (History of the Printed Image Network) / 'Somehow', Poetry Reading and Talk with Helen Calcutt / Myriad Editions Literary Salon / Liz Berry Chats Dialect and Poetry with R. M. Francis