A story-led website, a museum-style gallery, and the first steps toward getting Arthur H. Guise the recognition his work deserves.
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Challenge
An extraordinary body of work, largely unseen, and a daughter determined to change that.
Alice came to Dialekt with a collection. Her father, Arthur Howard Guise, was a Yorkshire silversmith, jeweller, photographer and precision maker who worked quietly for a lifetime and left behind a body of work most of the world had never seen. Brooches, engraved silver keepsake boxes, bangles, drawings, historic studies, his own tools, and a substantial archive of black and white photography. He was still working in his workshop just days before he died in 2017, aged 86.
Arthur’s work meant more when you understood the life behind it. The discipline, the modest beginnings in Pontefract, the patience of a maker who cared more about the work than the recognition. A conventional portfolio site would have shown the objects and lost the man. Alice needed something that carried both.
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Goal
Build a home for the archive that treats the story with the same care as the objects.
The brief came together in three parts: a website that could carry the collection with the weight it deserved, a physical exhibition to test the work in the real world, and a longer arc aimed at getting Arthur the industry recognition his work had never quite reached in his lifetime.
A story page built as a journey. Arthur’s life became the spine of the site, not a bio tucked into an About tab. Old photographs of him were gently brought to life so the whole thing felt considered and rewarding to move through.
A museum-style gallery for the work. Arthur’s own photography of his pieces was so good it did most of the work for us. The collection pages sit closer to a gallery catalogue than a portfolio, with proper space around each piece.
A first physical exhibition. We staged Arthur’s photography as the first public show, working with Alice on picture selection, printing and framing.
A long-game plan. The site is also the foundation for what comes next: outreach aimed at the Royal College of Art, groundwork for a published book, and future exhibitions of Arthur’s physical work around the UK.
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Result
Arthur H. Guise, on the record. And a foundation Alice can build the rest of the campaign on.
The site is live at ahguise.com, and for the first time Arthur’s work has a proper public home. The story page lets visitors move through his life at their own pace. The gallery treats each piece with the seriousness a museum would.
The first public exhibition of Arthur’s photography opened in June 2026 and runs through August, presenting a curated selection of black and white images, many unseen for decades. It’s already doing what it was meant to do: quietly reframing Arthur as an artist worth taking seriously across more than one discipline. The RCA recognition, the book, and touring exhibitions across the UK are the next steps, and Alice now has the platform to make the case for all of them.
