Tag: Mining
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Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’
The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
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John Cornish – interview: ‘It would be unfair just to look back on my father’s career as that of a good pictorial social historian – his artwork has aesthetic quality; it is real and immersive’
The son of the artist Norman Cornish, whose work is synonymous with mining life in the County Durham town of Spennymoor, looks back at his father’s life and artistic legacy
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions
The Bechers’ austere photographs documenting industrial architecture across Britain, Europe and North America in the second half of the last century are a stark reminder of a lost world of labour
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