The Fairground Painters with Amy Goodwin
Dive into the Dingles Fairground Museum collection, and meet the artists that produced the work.
Dr Amy Goodwin is a trustee of Dingles Fairground Museum, and in BLAG 04 she co-authored the regular 'Lettering Location' column with fellow trustee Aaron Stephens.
As a small postscript to BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 04, Amy treated us to a more expansive look a the museum's collections, sharing the stories of individual items, the people that painted them, and, towards the end, a handful of original Fred Fowle sketches.
Here is the recording of her talk and, below this, links to further reading and resources. (I've also added the recording to the 16 others from contributors to BLAG 04.)
BLAG Chat: The Fairground Painters with Amy Goodwin.
Additional Resources
- Amy's PhD Portal.
- Fred Fowle: work and documentary film.
- Pete Tei: Documentary film.
- Amy Goodwin: Documentary film.
- Books: All the Fonts of the Fair and Signwriting Tips, Tricks, and Techniques by sign painter and fairground artist Joby Carter.
- The National Fairground and Circus Archive.
- Film: When Better Letters Met Stan Wilkinson, retired sign painter and fairground artist.
- Fairground Art: Heritage Craft Association listing.
- Joby Carter's Fairground Art courses.
- Photos from the Letterheads at Dingles.
Thank you once again to Amy Goodwin for giving such an informative and visually rich talk. Visit her website, and also the rides themselves at Dingles Fairground Museum.
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