John Harvey, Miner-Artists: The Art of Welsh Coal Workers (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2000) pp. 32, ISBN 1-862250-16-2.

Introduction
The book accompanies the exhibition of the same title. The exhibition shows work by miners who took up art as a leisure activity and a means of coming to terms with their social conditions and environment during the 20th century. They made paintings, sculptures, photographs, and models in the spare bedroom, in the garden shed, or on the kitchen table using a mixture of traditional and local tools and materials such as brushes, palette-knives, fingers and rags, modelling clay, and even coal dust. A number received instruction at local amateur art classes. However, most miner-artists were untutored amateurs, in the best sense of that word. The works illustrate the conditions associated with miners' industry and life: the technology and skills of coalmining, mining disasters, documentary images of miners, collieries and their environs, the camaraderie of miners, women and mining, social hardships, strikes and lockouts, politics and religion, and mining history.