Adventures in Queer Printmaking Workshop

This workshop will take place in the University of Sussex’s Print Room, where we will produce a single page of queer magic, bringing together different print techniques and images and words from queer history. No previous skills are required, and all materials will be provided. Sam Solomon, Hanna Randall and Bethan Stevens will guide participants through some of the basics of hand-setting type and making linocut prints on our nineteenth century tabletop Albion press.

Meet in ACCA foyer promptly at 11.30 to walk to the print room. Wheelchair accessible route available.

Dr Samuel Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. Sam is a poet and translator, and is author of Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions, 2017) and co-translator from the Yiddish of The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (Tebot Bach, 2014) alongside other academic and creative publications.  He is currently at work on a literary labour history of queer typesetting and a second collection of poems.   

Dr Hanna Randall is a writer and artist based in Norwich. Having trained as a costume maker at RADA, she has worked in the London theatre and film costume industry for several years. She holds an MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex. She was a joint winner of the Bridge Award for Emerging Writer in 2018 and a runner up in the 2021 Mslexia Novel Prize. 

Bethan Stevens is a Reader in English and Art Writing, working on word-image culture in the long 19th century. Her current creative-critical project, Uncaring, investigates illustrated fiction in Victorian magazines. Bethan led the AHRC-funded Dalziel Project, culminating in a monograph (The Wood Engravers’ Self-Portrait) and exhibition at the British Museum (‘The Woodpecking Factory’). She publishes widely on prints and book illustration, including their environmental impacts, and is writing a collaged graphic novel queering print archives.

Photo credit: Sam Shuttleworth

Please note, a festival or day pass does not grant you entry to this event.