You-Tube still with part of
commentary transcribed. BFI (2016) ‘Tom McGuinness: 1972 profile of
County Durham’s famous miner-artist’ in National Coal Board The Mining Review London, British Film
Institute. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eUlRGPd7kQ&feature=youtu.be
(Accessed 23/04/2018).
To Tom McGuinness (on The
Hewer 1995)
Mining Art or miner-art is not minor art
But trawls along deep roads
For memories that might endure.
Through the shaped artefacts he finds,
Then to put it like a miner putted,
Putting them into motion –
A full tub of shapes that consume by being consumed,
And in their togetherness find meaning.
Kandinsky found expression in abstractions of shape
A (not-good enough) Poem for Tom McGuinness
Musing On Mining ART
You-Tube still with part of commentary transcribed. BFI (2016) ‘Tom McGuinness: 1972 profile of County Durham’s famous miner-artist’ in National Coal Board The Mining Review London, British Film Institute. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eUlRGPd7kQ&feature=youtu.be (Accessed 23/04/2018).
To Tom McGuinness (on The Hewer 1995)
Mining Art or miner-art is not minor art
But trawls along deep roads
For memories that might endure.
Through the shaped artefacts he finds,
Then to put it like a miner putted,
Putting them into motion –
A full tub of shapes that consume by being consumed,
And in their togetherness find meaning.
Kandinsky found expression in abstractions of shape
And colour. Tom’s Hewer
Performs those shapes – spiritual triangles
Underlie those tentative moments
Where the pressure of a world above
Content in its warm housing
Finally and unthinkingly
Crushes his lines and elegance.