Creative image maker: Edward Gordon Craig’s achievements in the visual arts

In his own lifetime and beyond, Craig’s immediately recognisable wood-engravings, woodcuts and etchings were widely exhibited both domestically and internationally. The speaker will argue that these images also had an important place in the wider creative revolution of content and medium explored by twentieth-century artists.

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Related Exhibitions

Space and Light, V & A Theatre and Performance Galleries, 11/09/2010 – 13/03/2011

The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, June 2011

Tessa Sidey

Tessa Sidey is Assistant Keeper of Fine Art at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery with a particular
interest in twentieth-century graphics. She regularly works with contemporary artists; most recently in
the areas of photographs and public art commissions. Formerly at York City Art Gallery, she has curated a number of print exhibitions including Edward Gordon Craig, an Exhibition of Wood-engravings and Woodcuts (1982), Patrick Proctor Prints 1959-1985 (1985), Sharp Voices, Still Lives: Birmingham Photography in the 1980s (1990) and The Prints of Michael Rothenstein 1950-1990 (1990). She is a regular contributor to Print Quarterly magazine.

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