Images of Industry

Miner holding a lamp

SEALE, A. Barney (1896 - 1957)

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Date: 1947

Media: fibre glass and mixed media

Size: 1060 x 650 x 2750 mm

Acquired: 2001; Transfer

Accession Number: 2001.1/42

This statue was made for the National Coal Board for the Industrial Wales Exhibition at Olympia 1947. The miner was modelled on Thomas Idris Lewis of Seven Sisters, Neath.

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Mark Etheridge, Curator: Industry and Transport Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales Staff
19 August 2015, 13:26

The version of the ‘Ideal Miner’ held by Amgueddfa Cymru is mainly made of fibreglass, and was one of a number of identical sculptures made for the Industrial Wales Exhibition held at Olympia in 1947.

It is currently on display at Big Pit: National Mining Museum. I have checked our records, and asked around, but we unfortunately do not know if an original sculptors maquette exists.

Andrea Mills
10 August 2015, 12:14
Thomas Idris Lewis was my grandfather. I am looking for the original 'Ideal Miner' sculpture of 1947 by Barney A Seale.

Many thanks
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