Final Shift

I recently completed a large watercolour depicting seven steel workers at Port Talbot, made from images taken during their final shift before October last year, when renovations began on the steel production area of the site, and the work started on building the new electric arc furnace there. I spoke to one of the steel workers in this group, Kriss (standing second in from the right of the image), who has worked at Port Talbot for over twenty years, and the audio is taken from this interview. This painting is part of a bigger project I started last October, when I began portraits of sixteen workers at Port Talbot, each accompanied by an audio interview to try and record some of the experiences of those working at the steel works.