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SUMMARY:Painting the Valleys - The Rt Hon Kim Howells
DTSTART:20170120T180000Z
DTEND:20170120T193000Z
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CONTACT:Sheila Betts
DESCRIPTION:This talk marks the opening of 'Valley of Vision'\, the new ex
 hibition at Wolfson College\, curated by Dr Owen Edwards in collaboration 
 with the University of South Wales.\n\nThere is an opportunity to preview 
 the exhibition in the Combination Room at Wolfson College\, from 5 to 5.50
 pm ahead of the talk.\n\n'Painting the Valleys' is open to all who are int
 erested and is free\, but please register your intention to attend at http
 s://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/painting-the-valleys-a-talk-by-the-rt-hon-kim-h
 owells-tickets-30259772795\n\n'Valley of Vision' runs from 21 January to 1
 9 March and is open Saturdays and Sundays from 3 to 5pm.\n\nFor over two h
 undred years\, the Valleys of South Wales have inspired painters and print
 makers. J M W Turner\, Richard Wilson and Julius Caesar Ibbetson were amon
 g the early visitors\, drawn to the coalfield by the promise of extraordin
 ary images – the visual combination of burgeoning heavy industry and dra
 matic landscapes. They came to witness the fiery spectacle of iron furnace
 s giving birth to a new industrial age. Here was the cutting edge of Brita
 in’s pioneering technologies. Yet they discovered\, within a stone’s t
 hrow of the blast furnaces and pit shafts\, a landscape of waterfalls\, pr
 ecipitous forests and wild\, romantic moorland.\n\nThankfully\, the painti
 ngs have survived. Some of them are gathered here\, at this exhibition. Th
 ey tell of a different age\, when coal was still king\, when artists - Wel
 sh\, English\, Polish\, German – felt it vital to communicate through pa
 int the dignity\, hope and beauty they discovered in communities like Rhon
 dda\, Merthyr\, Pontyberem\, Aberdare\, Pontypool and Blaenavon. They prov
 ide us\, now\, with a glimpse of a world that has been lost but one that d
 eserves to be remembered.\n\nKim Howells
LOCATION:The Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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