PHIL MAXWELL

Collage From Photographs (5)

December 15, 2016

Here are some recent collages from photographs. To see more type ‘collage’ into the search engine on the blog.

Bangladesh & London with ink 2016

Published photograph on calendar with acrylic , ink & oil pastel 2016

Published photographs in book with ink 2016

Bangladesh & London with acrylic 2016

East London photographs with ink & oil pastel 2016

Published photographs from calendar & book 2016

Photograph of Liverpool with acrylic on yellow & white card 2016

East London photographs with ink & pencil 2016

East London photographs with ink 2016

Photographs from Liverpool & East London with ink 2016

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On this day in 1984 Arthur Scargill, the mine workers’ president was fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 in costs following his arrest outside Orgreave Coal Works, near Sheffield, Yorkshire. Mr Scargill was arrested as he led about 80 pickets to the plant on the fifth consecutive day of the strike action by miners in protest over Thatchers pit closures. The defence argued in court that any suggestions of manhandling during his arrest, were a lie and that the arrest was “brazen, almost brutal”. It was argued police had taken action as part of a preconceived strategy to remove the miners’ leader from the scene “almost at any cost.” Mr Scargill was told by magistrates his “actions demonstrated a very poor example for those he sought to lead”. Speaking to reporters outside the court he said: “On the grounds that we presented to the court there was only one judgement which should have been given and that was not guilty.” He said the verdict was not surprising and reflected a prevailing attitude from authorities against the miners. “I anticipated the same kind of anti-working class judgement that has been the order of the day throughout this mining industrial dispute.”

The Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign includes ex-miners, Trades Unionists, activists and others who are determined to get justice for miners who were victims of police lies and cover ups at Orgreave in June 1984. In the Light of the Home Secretary’s shocking decision in October not to grant an inquiry into “The Battle of Orgreave” the OTJC are planning their “biggest and noisiest demonstration to date.” They have chosen Monday March 13th at 2pm (Demo 2pm to 4pm) to Demonstrate at the Home office, Unit 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.

Arthur Scargill, Labour Party Conference, c. 1984

Arthur Scargill, Labour Party Conference, 1984

Posters supporting the miners. Brick Lane Bridge 1984

Posters supporting the miners. Brick Lane Bridge, London 1984

Women in support of the miners, London c. 1984

Women in support of the miners, London 1984

East London women in support of the miners, Kent c. 1984

East London women in support of the miners, Kent 1984

East London meeting in support of the miners, c. 1984

East London meeting in support of the miners, York Hall 1984

NUM banner 1984

Poll Tax Demo with Yorkshire Miners banner, Trafalgar Square 1990

Kiveton Park (on Strike), 1984

Dog supporting the Miners on strike, 1980's

Dog supporting the Miners on strike, London 1984

Albert Bownes, Striking Miner, Kiveton Park, c. 1984

Striking Miner, Kiveton Park, 1984

Arthur Scargill. Labour Party Conference 1984

Paul Winter (left) and John Dunn of the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign speaking in Liverpool, 2016

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Rivers & Canals

December 13, 2016

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.