Exhibition

Idris Phillips’ Portrait at National Coal Mining Museum

in Miners, Exhibition, Photogrammetry, coal, ffotogallery, The Coal Face, 3-d portrait, The National Coal Mining Museum

A print of Idris Phillips’ 3-d portrait is featured at The National Coal Mining Museum‘s exhibition about African Caribbean miners contribution to coal mining in the U.K. . The National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield recently opened an exhibition “Digging Deep: Miners of African Caribbean Heritage” by the Nottingham New […]

“The Car. The Future. Me” at the British Motor Museum

in Automotive, British Motor Museum, Exhibition, Renewables, 3-d, Photogrammetry, workshop, 3-d portrait, parallax, 2.5-d, animation, image animation, time-lapse, 4-k, interviews, voice recordings

“The Car. The Future. Me” “The Car. The Future. Me” digital installation opened, July 2019, as part of the “The Car. The Future. Me” exhibition at the British Motor Museum The project was a year in the making, and will be on show for a year. The project was a […]

R.I.P. – Owen Tucker – The Face of “The Coal Face”

in Miners, Exhibition, Film, Photogrammetry, coal

Today was a very sad day. I attended the funeral of Owen Tucker. Owen was a friend and inspiration. Owen was a miner, for 35 years, who lived in Six Bells. For his entire life he lived in the terraced house where he had been born 84 years earlier. Owen […]

Screening of “Black Gold” Edwardsville, Treharris

in Uncategorised, Community Group, Community Interest Company, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, Exhibition, coal, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery had a very full screening of the HLF funded project “Merthyr’s Black Gold” today. We had the entire primary school of over 200 children attending the first screening. The second screening was attended by around 25 relatives and parents and about […]

Merthyr’s Black Gold – in the news

in Community Interest Company, Charity, School, Education, Miners, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr’s Black Gold, vision Fountain’s project in collaboaration with Cyfarthfa Museum and Art Galler and Heritage Lottery Fund in the news. The project featureed in the Western Mail’s Week-End magazine and on Walesonline. See link: Walesonlinelink Thanks to Will Hayward for covering this important ongoing project.

Motor Mouths Workshops at the British Motor Museum

in British Motor Museum, Community Group, Education, Exhibition, workshop

Digital artists, Richard Jones, aided by Vision Fountain, has just held audio visual workshops at the British Motor museum, where children were encouraged to draw their wown car that we oput them inside and then lauched them into cyber-space!

Winding House Installation on front page of Rhymney Valley Express

in Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, White Rose Community Resource Centre, Miners, Exhibition

Arthur Mellard, Les Lewis and Peter Francis, ex-miners from Elliot Colliery from the installation at the Winding House Museum, photos by Richard Jones / Vision Fountain

Walesonline and Wales on Sunday feature Winding House project

in Uncategorised, Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, Miners, Exhibition, coal

Wales online and Wales On Sunday featured our project with the Winding House Museum commemorating 50 years since the closure of Elliot Colliery http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rats-cockroaches-characters-friends-crushed-13824915 All quotes from the article are taken from the interviews we conducted with the ex-miners: Rats, cockroaches, characters, and friends crushed to death – the extraordinary […]

Pen-y-Cymoedd

in Community Group, Education, Miners, Exhibition, Film, Pen-y-Cymoedd, Wind Farm, Vattenfall

Vision Fountain’s, creative director, Richard Jones’ short film, “The changing Industrial; Landscape of Wales” (supported with an Arts Council of Wales R+D grant in 2015 )will be shown at the opening of the Pen-y-Cymoedd Wind Farm next week. Vattenfall UK, who manage the wind farm, allowed Richard to shoot parts […]

Elliot Colliery’s 50th

in Community Group, Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, White Rose Community Resource Centre, Miners, Exhibition, Digital Installation, Film

Just delivered a “digital installation” to The winding House Museum that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the closure of Elliot Colliery. More than that the short film celebrates the massive and important contribution the miners made to the community. It was hard work to find some of the ex-miners, many […]