STEELMAKING WOODCUTS AND OTHER WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY VIVA TALBOT (1900-1983)

Exhibition - 30th March - 18th July 2010

Dorman Museum, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough  TS5 6LA

Come along to this unique exhibition which includes over forty woodblock prints, fifteen of which depict the process of making steel.  The unusual subject matter is the work of a Yorkshire artist called Viva Talbot who created the images during the 1930s when it was almost unknown for a woman to be allowed access to the grimy and dangerous steelworks.

This exhibition, developed by Dr Joan Heggie, contains personal items such as sketch books, photographs and even one of Viva's diaries. 

To learn more about this fascinating woman artist and to see images of Teesside steelmaking unlike any others, vist the Dorman Museum.

For further details please visit the musum website or click here to download the museum poster.

Admission is FREE

An article about the exhibition written by Paul Delplanque in the Remember When section of the Gazette Live website can be viewed by following this link.

THE 'RUSTY GOLD RUSH' THAT CHANGED BRITISH HISTORY

Read the Channel 4 news article here by Nick Martin who looks back at the heyday of the British steel industry, some pictures from the British Steel Collection can be viewed in this article.

CORUS - A HISTORY OF STEEL MAKING ON TEESSIDE

BBCs Ian Reeve's people and places report on the closure of Corus - A History of Steel Making on Teesside can be viewed by clicking here.

Two new articles can now be read on our Conservation page regarding conservation of glass plate negatives held in the Collection and, an update on the Sydney Harbour Bridge blue prints!