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Dragon’s Dream Opening at Parc and Dare

in School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Arts Council Wales, Creative Collaborations, animation, image animation, Parc and Dare Theatre, Rhondda Cynon Taff

The lower level of the old miners community hall, The Parc and Dare in Treorchy, was packed for the opening of the Dragon’s Dream, animated film project, 12th Nov 2019. Gelli Primary school and Penyrenglyn Primary Schools took part in the 10 -month project that was funded by Arts Council […]

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 […]

Owen Tucker Obituary in South Wales Echo

in Energy+Notion, Miners, ffotogallery, The Coal Face, 3-d portrait, South Wales Echo

Owen Tucker was given a half page tribute in the obituaries section of the South Wales Echo recently. Owen was the the face of Energy+Notion and also used by ffotogallery for publicity of The Coalface A FORMER miner who was one of the first on the scene at the Six […]

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

in Miners, Exhibition, Film, Photogrammetry, coal

Today was a sad day. Owen a friend and inspiration was buried in Six Bells. Owen was a miner, for 35 years. For his entire life he lived in the terraced house where he had been born 84 years earlier. Owen Tucker was deeply honest, generous and spoke his mind, […]

The Coal Face at Sound + Vision

in ffotogallery, Diffusion2019, The Coal Face, 3-d portrait

It was a pleasure for Vision Fountain to be part of Sound+Vision 2019. The Coal Face was commissioned by Ffotogalley in November 2018 as part of Arts Council Wales research and development project to devise a method of creating 3-d portraits in the field. It was a mamoth task to […]

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.

Merthyr’s Black Gold Opening at RedHouse, Merthyr

in Community Group, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop, Cyfarthfa Castle, Heritage Lottry Fund, Red House, Merthyr Tydfil

The multi-media film portion of Merthyr’s Black Gold project openened at the RedHouse, Merthyr, 21st November. The two screenings were attended by participants from Cyfarthfa Primary School, Edwardsville Primary School, Pantyscallog Primary School, Ynysowen Primary and Quar and Troedyrhiw Scout Groups and their relatives and teachers. The 20 minute […]

Edwardsville Primary come to Cyfarthafa Castle Museum

in Uncategorised, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, 3-d, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Last week was Edwardsville Primary School’s chance to experience an audio visual workshop at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Over 40 children attended the full day workshop. They brought in lots of stories that their relatives had told them, they took photographs of one another in costumes related to […]