By SWEPnino
A portrait of actor Richard Burton made using 500 million-year-old slate will be unveiled by the actor's daughter, Kate Burton, at Swansea University's Swansea Bay campus later today.
Mosaic artist Ed Chapman used stone from the disused Rhiwbach Quarry, in Conwy, to make the piece which was created to mark what would have been Richard Burton's 90th birthday in November 2015.
The mosaic will now have a permanent home at Swansea University's Great Hall.
Mr Chapman said: "I have long been a fan of Richard Burton and I wanted to create a unique portrait of him, if possible incorporating something Welsh of which he would be proud and possibly amused.".
Before the unveiling, Kate Burton and other family members including Guy Masterson, Mr Burton's great nephew, will view a selection of material from the Richard Burton Collection at the University's Richard Burton Archives.
The material includes Mr Burton's 1940 diary, a bookbag with a selection of books from his library, film posters and photographs, and school records for Port Talbot Secondary School from the period that Richard Jenkins, later Burton, attended it.