Art History Course | Framing the Landscape: Interwar Printmaking
10.30am–1pm
£45 each or book all three for £125
[ Special Event )
Buy Tickets >Join us for the opening session of our new art history course, Framing the Landscape: 20th-Century British Art, focussed on interwar printmaking.
The session will feature two engaging lectures with opportunities for questions, plus a coffee break (refreshments provided) in between.
In the years between the First and Second World Wars, printmaking experienced a remarkable revival in Britain. In his introductory lecture art historian Jolyon Drury explores the renewed interest in traditional techniques such as etching and wood engraving and considers how artists captured rural life and labour with clarity and purpose.
A second lecture by Dr Melanie Vandenbrouck, Chief Curator at Pallant House Gallery, will focus on the life and work of Clare Leighton (1898-1989), one of the leading printmakers of the period, whose art reflected not just her own work ethic, but that of the workforce involved in agricultural and manual labour.
Please bring anything you would like to make notes with and let us know when booking of any special dietary or access requirements.
£45 per session or book all three for the discounted price of £125.
Add all three sessions to your basket to receive the discounted price when you check out.
Other sessions in this course are:
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 10.30am–1pm: Surrealism, Neo-Romanticism and War
Wednesday 21 October 2026, 10.30am–1pm: Postwar Abstraction
Melanie Vandenbrouck
Dr Melanie Vandenbrouck is Chief Curator at Pallant House Gallery. Formerly Curator of Sculpture 1900–Now at the V&A and Curator of Art Post-1800 at Royal Museums Greenwich in London, she has led major contemporary art initiatives. Her wide interests include the porosity between artforms and the ways in which art and identity intersect. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute and trained at the École du Louvre and Sorbonne University in Paris as well as Sussex University.
Jolyon Drury
Jolyon Drury is custodian of the Drury collections and a specialist in 20th-century British printmaking. The grandson of sculptor Alfred Drury and son of artist Paul Drury, he has contributed widely to exhibitions, publications and research on British art. A former trustee of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, he has lectured extensively and supported major exhibitions, including at Pallant House Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum.
