County Durham Mining Exhibition explores loss and landscape
"The combination of paintings and sound explores not only what was lost, but what remains, what has changed, and how people continue to define their places and memories decades after the last coal was mined," Mr Price said.
Mr Price's 40 paintings produced during the 40th anniversary year of the 1984-5 miners' strike depict former colliery sites as they are today which he said were "silent spaces once central to working-class life, now reclaimed, repurposed, or left behind"."I find it really interesting that we have generations of people living in places that are entirely shaped by mining, but might have no living memory of it themselves," he said.The works are paired with sound installations by Mr Hudson of recorded interviews for his 1991 book Coming Back Brockens about those who lived through the strike."The 86 hours of interviews I did in Horden 30 years ago were largely concerned with the miners' strike, which was then very recent," Mr Hudson said. "In between the strike and me arriving in the village, the pit had closed."
The exhibition opens on 13 June at the Warehouse, in Newgate Shopping Centre, Bishop Auckland and, on 12 July, will form part of the 139th Durham Miners' Gala.
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