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Mewn ymateb i arddangosfa Bert Isaac (05.07.2025 – 29.09.2025) bydd cyfres o 4 sgwrs wedi ei ciwradu gan Dr Dafydd Roberts i weld hanes cymunedau chwareli mewn lluniau gan artistiaid niferus .Bydd cyfle i fanylu ar sut roedd celfyddydau gain a llenyddiaeth yn cynrychioli y cymunedau Chwareli Gwynedd . Bydd bob cyfranwyr yn craffu a manylu ar deunydd celf gain i haneswyr i greu darlun o gymunedau chwareli yn y cyfnod.Chwareli Dyffryn Nantlle a’u heffaith ar y dirweddBydd ail sgwrs yn cael ei gyflwyno gan yr hanesydd John Dilwyn Williams a rhoi cipolwg ar hanes datblygiad y cloddfeydd llechi yn llawr Dyffryn Nantlle. Trwy gyfrwng gwahanol ddelweddau manylir ar y ffordd yr effeithiodd y cloddfeydd hyn ar dirwedd y dyffryn, gan roi inni’r dirwedd ôl-ddiwydiannol bresennol, megis Chwarel Dorothea a fu’n ysbrydoliaeth i rai o weithiau celf Bert Isaac. Erbyn heddiw gwerthfawrogir yr olion hyn ddigon i’w cynnwys o fewn Safle Treftadaeth y Byd Tirwedd Llechi Gogledd Orllewin Cymru, ond nid felly oedd hi yn y 1970au pan gollwyd llawer ohonynt.
In response to the Bert Isaac exhibition (05.07.2025 – 29.09.2025), there will be a series of 4 talks curated by Dr. Dafydd Roberts exploring the history of quarrying communities in images from various artists and authors .
There will be ample opportunity to delve into how fine arts and literature represented the quarrying communities of Gwynedd. Each contributor will scrutinize and elaborate on fine art materials for historians to create a depiction of quarrying communities in the period.
The quarries of the Nantlle Valley and their impact on the landscape is the subject of the second talk presented by historian John Dilwyn Williams. This overview will providing insight into the history of the slate mine developments in the Nantlle Valley quarries. Through various images, it will detail how these mines affected the valley's landscape, giving us the present post-industrial landscape, such as the Dorothea Quarry that inspired some of Bert Isaac's art pieces. To this day, these remnants are appreciated enough to be included within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Slate Landscape of North West Wales,but this was not the case in the 1970s when many of them were lost.
