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The artist said about this piece in 2007: "During research into the lifestyle of my coal-mining forebears, I was quite surprised by how much public and family memories had faded over three generations. Perhaps understandable with pitheads removed and spoil heaps levelled and planted, and the mined coal rarely seen by the young generations. The concept of this picture was to paint an abstract surface barely reminiscent of a coal face that on close examination had just enough detail to alert the senses to human presence and then, with slow recognition of further details, a spectral scene of miners below ground at the coal face taking their bait. Perhaps only to be recognised by those with a mining heritage, today's generations are unlikely to have seen or touched coal.
Title
Ghosts
Date
1988–2008
Medium
acrylic on paper mounted on board
Measurements
H 31.5 x W 42 cm
Accession number
NRO 07600/6
Acquisition method
donated by the artist, 2008
Work type
Painting