This Artistic Life by Barry Hines and read by Jon McClure
Between 1972 and 1974 Barry Hines had an office on the 9th floor of the Arts Tower. As a Yorkshire Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, he was funded to write, and it was during this period that he penned The Gamekeeper, an…
Between 1972 and 1974 Barry Hines had an office on the 9th floor of the Arts Tower. As a Yorkshire Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, he was funded to write, and it was during this period that he penned The Gamekeeper, and an essay entitled ‘A Room with a View’, later renamed ‘This Artistic Life’.
From his office, Hines surveyed the view across Sheffield, and the essay shows us the sources of his inspiration: the factories, the council estates, the everyday working people. It’s a manifesto for working-class writing.
Here, Jon McClure from Reverend and the Makers, like Hines a South Yorkshire storyteller inspired by everyday life, reanimates ‘This Artistic Life’. The piece is accompanied by a soundscape by Rob Spark, produced by Graham McElearney, which captures and amplifies the repetitions of the paternoster lift that would have taken Hines to and from his office on a daily basis.
From his office, Hines surveyed the view across Sheffield, and the essay shows us the sources of his inspiration: the factories, the council estates, the everyday working people. It’s a manifesto for working-class writing.
Here, Jon McClure from Reverend and the Makers, like Hines a South Yorkshire storyteller inspired by everyday life, reanimates ‘This Artistic Life’. The piece is accompanied by a soundscape by Rob Spark, produced by Graham McElearney, which captures and amplifies the repetitions of the paternoster lift that would have taken Hines to and from his office on a daily basis.