VisionFountain

First Audio-Visual Workshop with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum

in Education, Audio Visual Education, 3-d Render, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery held the first audio-visual heritage workshop with Ynysowen Primary School as part of the HLF funded Merthyr’s Black Gold project. During the workshop the children drew items related to their coal heritage, recorded stories that their relatives had told them and […]

Working with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & The Heritage Lottery Fund

in Miners, coal, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain have started a project about Merthyr’s Coal Heritage called “Merthyr’s Black Gold” with project partners Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and the Heritage Lottry fund. Four primary schools and two scout troops in the area will be actively involved in the project. We will be teaching the young learners how […]

Our Mountain Opening

in Community Group, School, Arts Council Wales, Creative Collaborations

We’ve been very busy. We had a great opening of the “Our Mountain” project at the Parc and Dare Theatre in Treorchy. The Welsh Gov. / Arts Coucil Wales’ Lead Creative scheme (Creative Collaboration) project was openied at thwe 105 year-old old miners theatre with all the young participants, their […]

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 […]

The Winding House Museum

in Uncategorised

Great morning with the old miners of Elliot Colliery to celebrate their contribution to the community. The Winding House Museum, New Tredegar featured a digital installation from Vision Fountain as part of the exhibition to clebrate the 50th anniversary of the closure on the mine:

Wales’ Largest Onshore wind Farm Opens 28.09.17

in Film, Wind Farm, Vattenfall, Arts Council Wales, Renewables, Pen-y-Cyoedd

Wales’ largest wind farm will open today on the top of Rhigos Mountain-side at the end of the Rhondda Valley. Creative director, Richard Jones, shot part of his Arts Coucil Wales backed Energy+Notion project there. Here’s an extract:

Creative Collaboration with Rhigos & Pen-Pych Primary Schools

in School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Digital Installation, Arts Council Wales, Creative Collaborations

Vision Fountain have been awarded a small grant from Welsh Government / Arts Council Wales through their Creative Collaborations partnership scheme. We are excited to be creating a mixed media film with the children from Rhigos Primary and Pen-Pych Community School, right at the end of the Rhondda Valley. The […]

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 […]