A FREE new exhibition called Dancing coalfields is marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the British miners’ strike at ...

I wanted to be a writer not a bloody coal miner or shipyard worker. By the time the 1984 strike was lost and I'd graduated from university I turned round to discover that the mining industry was ...

An artist is exhibiting drawings which aim to capture the atmosphere of coal mines and the conditions endured by generations of miners. Matt Sayers used charcoal sticks and worked by lamplight in ...

The opening of an art exhibition using coal from Hazelwood mine will coincide with the final weeks of Hazelwood power station's operation. The brown coal mine, which has been labelled the world's ...

Open-pit coal mining has ... ridges and furrows of the mining site, rather than completely reshaping them, so in a sense, his work is a kind of post-industrial found art. One pragmatic benefit ...

Picture north-east England and if any image comes readily to mind, it is almost certainly a coal mine. Coal was once king ... At the Laing Art Gallery, Susan Stenger’s installation Sound Strata ...