Miners

Industrial Visions:Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions, at the Museum of Wales’ main site in Cathays, Cardiff is an absolute treat and quite inspirational, for those interested in industrial heritage and […]

Coal Cultures

Coal Cultures presentation and symposium 31-1 – 01/02. Vision Fountain’s unique 3-d portraiture modelling techniques, developed with Arts Council Wales, were presented at Coal Cultures. A great oppportunity to discuss […]

Idris Phillips’ Portrait at 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 […]

Owen Tucker Obituary in 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 […]

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

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 […]

Screening of “Black Gold” Edwardsville, Treharris

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 […]

Merthyr’s Black Gold – in the news

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 […]

Edwardsville Primary come to Cyfarthafa Castle Museum

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 […]

Working with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & The Heritage Lottery Fund

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 […]

Winding House Installation on front page of Rhymney Valley Express

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