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Art Historian Peter Wakelin’s vivid account of heavy industry’s decline across our landscape, as told through the late George Little’s dramatic paintings and photographs. 

George Little was born in the east end of Swansea in 1927 he grew up next to the abandoned copperworks, slag heaps and still-busy docks of Dylan Thomas’s ‘ugly, lovely town’. 

He trained at Swansea College  of Art and brought a deep visual knowledge to a life’s work exploring the dramatic forms  and startling colours of industrial and urban decay in photographs, drawings and paintings. He continued working until his death in 2017.

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Disgrifiad byw gan yr Hanesydd Celf Peter Wakelin o ddirywiad diwydiant trwm ar draws ein tirwedd, fel yr adroddir trwy baentiadau a ffotograffau dramatig y diweddar George Little.

Ganed George Little yn Nwyrain Abertawe yn 1927 gan dyfu fyny drws nesaf i’r gweithfeydd copr, pentyrrau sorod, a’r dociau prysur o’r ‘ugly, lovely town’ gan Dylan Thomas. 

Hyfforddwyd yng Ngholeg Cerdd Abertawe, a gwelwyd gwybodaeth ddofn yn ei waith, gan archwilio’r ffurf ddramatig, lliwiau brawychus o ddadfeiliad trefol a diwydiannol yn ei ffotograffau, a’i darluniau. Parhawyd i weithio tan ei farwolaeth yn 2017.