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Guest Post: An Artist’s Perspective

September 4, 2013 · by · in Archaeologist Portraits, Archaeology of Archaeology, Artist in Residence, Peter Driver, Summer Excavation, Winchester School of Art · Leave a comment

— Peter Driver, our Artist-in-Residence, has written a piece reflecting on his experience of the excavation season. Thanks Peter! — I relished the opportunity to be artist-in-residence at the Basing House dig.  I  felt rather unqualified for the role, having no previous experience of archaeology, outside of TV documentaries. I didn’t even study History at […]

Guest Blog: Artist in Residence at Work

September 4, 2013 · by · in Artist in Residence, Peter Driver, Summer Excavation, Winchester School of Art · Leave a comment

Peter Driver, our Artist-in-Residence has written posts at his blog about the work that he has been doing with us up at Basing House while we were excavating. Peter is part of the team that is working now to develop a travelling exhibition all about the excavation.  We’ll keep you updated with our plans here […]

Meet the Team – Michael Davies

July 28, 2013 · by · in Meet the Team, Michael Davies, Winchester School of Art · Leave a comment

Michael worked with us on site in 2013. I’ll be attending between the 29th and the 31st to help out and work with Peter on making little prints, probably woodcuts and monoprints in response to the objects excavated at the site. My work has been of abstract landscapes as of late, so to explore treasures […]

Art Students visit Archaeology Stores

March 4, 2013 · by · in Winchester School of Art · 1 Comment

Photos Acknowledgements: All of the photos in this post were taken by Alick Cotterill, so a big thank-you to him for letting us include them in this post.  Last week I travelled up to the Hampshire County Council Museums Service Headquarters in Winchester to meet with a fab bunch of people. The Winchester School of […]