Morfydd Owen - Mosaic - Pontypridd, Wales.
N 51° 36.104 W 003° 20.540
30U E 476290 N 5716798
A larger than life size mosaic mural featuring Morfydd Owen. The mosaic is located at the center of the Mill Street underpass, in Pontypridd, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMKJMH
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/22/2014
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The Mural of Morfydd was commissioned by Rhondda Cynon Taff Community Arts and was made by Andrew Bolton.
The mosaic uses mostly small ceramic pieces, with this mosaic portrait the face, and hair are single solid ceramic pieces.
"One of the greatest musical talents yet seen in Wales, Morfydd Owen was born at Treforest in South Wales in 1891.
Her first published work appeared in 1909. Her record of distinction at the Academy is as yet unequalled.
Morfydd was appointed to the teaching staff at the Academy, and began what promised to be a brilliant career as both singer and composer. Tragically, this promise was to be cut short by her death from appendicitis a month short of her 27th birthday in 1918. The previous year, she had married the famous psycho-analyst Dr Ernest Jones.
In just over 10 years, she produced some 180 compositions, instrumental, choral, and orchestral; and at the heart of her work, some one hundred songs. Surprisingly for a Welsh composer of that time, sacred music formed only a small part of her output - 22 hymn tunes and a few anthems. However, she remains best known in Wales for her stunning setting of the Welsh hymn 'Gweddi y Pechadur' (The Sinner's Prayer)." Text Source: (
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