Coal Dust Crushed to Clean Pixels

Coal Dust to Crushed Clean Pixels is a unique framed digital artwork by Dex Hannon, charting Northumberland’s transformation from an industrial powerhouse to a landscape defined by renewable energy.

Drawn from an experimental video artwork, the piece layers the Northumberland Flag with geometric forms inspired by a WWII bunker in Blyth. The film becomes a mine of ideas—frames extracted, refined, and re-imagined until a single still captures the region’s evolving identity.

The title speaks of metamorphosis: from coal dust’s gritty residue to the crisp order of digital pixels. Hannon’s work mirrors this transition, acknowledging both progress and the unease that accompanies change. While the turbines promise a cleaner future, they also cast long shadows over communities once powered by coal.

Ready to hang, this artwork stands as a visual meditation on renewal, memory, and place in a landscape caught between past and possibility.

Digital Art framed and ready to hang
40cm x 22cm