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COAL MOUTH DELIVERED
Coal Mouth at Whitespace
Coal Mouth
Oil Paintstick & Chinagraph Pencil on Paper , 23.5 x 18.5cm | 19 January 2016
Oil Paintstick & Chinagraph Pencil on Paper , 23.5 x 18.5cm | 19 January 2016
Today, I delivered a small painting, Coal Mouth to the Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh for the Public and Commercial Services Union, Counter Culture Workers' Art Exhibition.
PCS explain:
"Work is often something we do to get by, to get paid, to pay our bills, to have a bit of financial freedom. We spend our lives at work, sometimes unfulfilled, underpaid, under used. In Scotland's galleries, museums and cultural institutions, workers have a huge range of skills, stories, knowledge and experience about the work they do. This knowledge is crucial to transforming and improving working lives. This project is part of a widen initiative that helps workers use their skills to talk about justice at work and to reinvigorate the cultural output of the trade union movement.
All art on display is original pieces by workers in Scotland's cultural organisations tackling the theme of 'work', as well as material from the Scottish Trades Union Congress archive."
My painting is for my grandfather who was a miner at one time in his life. He died from Tuberculosis contracted from working 'down the pit'. This is a painting for him.
Isaiah 6:6-7 (New Living Translation)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
7 He touched my lips with it and said, "See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven."
Coal Mouth
Oil Paintstick & Chinagraph Pencil on Paper
23.5 x 18.5cm | (Frame 38.3 x 32.3 x 3cm)
19 January 2016
Coal Mouth is on top of the plinth in the photograph!
PCS explain:
"Work is often something we do to get by, to get paid, to pay our bills, to have a bit of financial freedom. We spend our lives at work, sometimes unfulfilled, underpaid, under used. In Scotland's galleries, museums and cultural institutions, workers have a huge range of skills, stories, knowledge and experience about the work they do. This knowledge is crucial to transforming and improving working lives. This project is part of a widen initiative that helps workers use their skills to talk about justice at work and to reinvigorate the cultural output of the trade union movement.
All art on display is original pieces by workers in Scotland's cultural organisations tackling the theme of 'work', as well as material from the Scottish Trades Union Congress archive."
My painting is for my grandfather who was a miner at one time in his life. He died from Tuberculosis contracted from working 'down the pit'. This is a painting for him.
Isaiah 6:6-7 (New Living Translation)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
7 He touched my lips with it and said, "See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven."
Coal Mouth
Oil Paintstick & Chinagraph Pencil on Paper
23.5 x 18.5cm | (Frame 38.3 x 32.3 x 3cm)
19 January 2016
Coal Mouth is on top of the plinth in the photograph!
The exhibition ends 5pm Sunday 16 September.
