National Museuem Wales

Heritage Fund’s 2033 Strategy & Vision Fountain

It was a thrill to see Vision Fountain’s project “Last Generation of Coalminers” featured in the Heritage fund’s 10-year strategy. Inclusion of the project, felt like validation, not just of […]

National Lottery Awards

Vision Fountain’s Richard Jones ‘delighted” to be announced as a finalist in the ‘Outstanding Individuals’ category of the 2023 #NationalLottery Awards #NLAwards @LottoGoodCauses @HeritageFundCYM Finalist in 2023 National Lottery Awards […]

Last Generation of Coalminers….Evaluation….What they said…….

We’ve been digging through pages (and pages) of evaluation records and data as we complete “The Last Generation of Coalminers” project. (AKA “Last Voices of the Rhondda” / “Kings of […]

Tiz’s – Landscapes at National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

Taroune “Tiz” Buchi of Cardiff Metropolitan University has a large display of his photographic reportage as part of the “King’s of the Underground” project. Tiz’s photographs are exhibited in the […]

Kings of the Underground featured in The Guardian

The Kings of the Underground project was recently featured in the Guardian newspaper online. Click on the picture above to access the article. ends

Kings of the Underground – Opening

07th November, King’s of the Undergound exhibition had it’s official opening at the National Waterfront Museum – Amgueddfa Cymru. The event was attended by many involved in the project; ex-miners […]

Kings of the Underground – Press Release

Kings of The Underground – Exhibition by Vision Fountain / National Waterfront Museum until 19th March 2023 (part of Amgueddfa Cymru / Museum of Wales) Download Vision Fountain Press Release […]

Kings of the Underground – Project Details

Kings of The Underground by Vision Fountain An exhibition of three-dimensional (3D) portraits of Welsh Miners called “Kings of the Underground” opens at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales 07th […]

More Oral Histories from the Afan Valley

We spent the day talking to locals and capturing 3D portraits at Glyncorrygw. Glyncorrygw is a lovely isolated village at the end of the Afan Valley and surely one of […]

Recordings from the Afan Valley

We’ve started making recordings and 3D portraits of ex-coalminers from the Afan Valley, north of PortTalbot, for the Heritage Funded project, Kings of the Underground exhibition that will appear in […]