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On Strike

© the artist. Image credit: Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Trust

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Painted to capture the feel of the 1984/1985 miner’s strike in South Wales, this is an image that has come to be associated very clearly with the Valleys. The model for the painting was the actor Simon Cadell.

David Carpanini was born in Glamorgan in 1946. He studied at Gloucestershire College Of Art, the Royal College Of Art and the University Of Reading. In 1969 he won the British Institutions Awards Committee Annual Scholarship for engraving and has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy.

Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Merthyr Tydfil

Title

On Strike

Date

1985

Medium

acrylic on canvas

Measurements

H 82 x W 82 cm

Accession number

CCM.163.990

Acquisition method

presented by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales

Work type

Painting

Normally on display at

Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Brecon Road, Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) CF47 8RE Wales

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