Swansea Print Workshop

A collaboration between the South Wales Miners’ Library and Swansea Print Workshop to celebrate the Library’s 50th anniversary.

Exploring the rich resource of the SWML – an extensive collection of banners and books, testimonies, posters and plans – SPW printmakers have created twenty-one contemporary prints in response.

It is the power of visual arts to evoke a memory, an emotion, a recognition: the feel of a piece of coal, the rousing call of the brass band, the face of a relative, now gone. And to ask us to reflect upon others’ lives – their losses and struggles – as we too, are drawn into the depths, to breathe the dusty air with the dark pressing around us.

These prints invite us to share knowledge and to educate ourselves about life in the past and to remember and recognise the imprint of mining history on our lives today.

A limited edition of individual prints are available for sale.

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