L S LOWRY & Industrial South Wales | BBC Radio Wales, 2007

L S LOWRY & BARGOED | John Wilson

In July 2007 I participated in a BBC Radio Wales programme *Inspired*, discussing L. S. Lowry's paintings of the South Wales industrial landscape in the 1960s.

Broadcast on Mon 27 Aug 2007, the radio programme is reproduced here with permission of BBC Radio Wales.

We conducted a series of interviews on location at the site where Lowry produced a number of studies for his 1965 painting Coal Tip, Bargoed.

Perspectives on Lowry's South Wales experience are provided by:
* Martin Bloom, the son of Lowry's patron Monty Bloom - a business man from Ebbw Vale, who moved up North and became close friends with Lowry, and who regularly brought Lowry to South Wales where the artist immersed himself in painting and discovered a new fresh vision for his work in the South Wales coalfield landscape;
* art historian John Wilson;
* and artist Valerie Ganz, whose celebrated work has engaged with the South Wales Coalfield and in particular Six Bells, Abertillery.

The interviewer is Welsh poet Paul Henry, whose sensitivity to Lowry and his South Wales landscape experience led to a creative interview process.

This video clip consists of the BBC Radio Wales broadcast; together with photos taken on location at Bargoed - a landscape of regeneration, with the construction of the new by-pass road.

Related

* The Poetics of Place | John Wilson, Guest Curator | Newport Museum and Art Gallery | https://sites.google.com/site/artnewp... | Curatorial Essay: https://sites.google.com/site/artnewp...

* Paul Henry | http://www.paulhenrypoet.co.uk/ | Paul Henry is one of Wales's leading poets. The author of five collections of verse, he has read at festivals across the UK and Europe. Originally a songwriter, Henry has guest-edited Poetry Wales and is a popular Creative Writing tutor. He recently presented the 'Inspired' series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales.

* Valerie Ganz | http://www.valerieganz.co.uk/index.html | Mining subjects: http://www.valerieganz.co.uk/portfoli... & Industrial Landscapes: http://www.valerieganz.co.uk/portfoli...

* Martin Bloom |   / martinbloom