Tip Girl

Solo exhibition of 10 portraits of the girls who worked in the South Wales coalfields in the 19th Century. 8th March 2019. Virginia Woolf ‘Womens history ‘has to be invented – both discovered and made up”. Their histories have been buried. Sources Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, 1842, Vol. XV, p. 84. Children Employment Commission Report 1842 Carfatha Castle Museum, Merthyr, South Wales Bg Pit, Bleanafon, South Wales Tredeger Museum, South Wales Ebbw Vale Archives, South Wales The Pit Girls Biographies were constructed using imagination and information from the resources referenced above. I wanted to give voice to the portraits of these silent and forgotten women.