School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Gwyn Martin

Born: 1921, UK, Wales, Rhondda, Penygraig   Died: 2001, Aberystwyth

Photographer. After leaving school he served in the Second World War as a navigator in the RAF. He partook in 50 bombing raids in Europe until shot down in Norway in 1942 whereafter he was held for two and a half years in the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. After the war he trained as a pharmacist and played rugby for Cardiff. From 1948 he became a partner in his father-in-law's chemist shop, Taylor Lloyd Ltd., in Aberystwyth. He was a member of the Aberystwyth Camera Club, serving as President from 1958, and photographed people, places and natural forms in and around Aberystwyth and also in South Africa. His autobiography, from 1939-1945, 'Up and Under', was published in 1989 and the photo book 'A Stroll around the Harbour' was published in 2004.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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Pool PH354 Photography

Professor Gwyn Williams PH383 Photography

Scrum Half, 1985 PH398 Photography

Slatefault, Tanybwlch 1974 PH349 Photography




 
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