Biography
Newport Gallery and Museum sits within the town's Kingsway shopping centre. The collection illustrates the changing face of South Wales' rural and industrial landscape, holding works by Sir Frank Brangwyn, Sir Kyffin Williams, Ceri Richards, Stanley Lewis, Shani Rhys James, Gerda Roper and the 19th-century Newport artist, James Flewitt Mullock. The gallery holds a small collection of work by early modern British artists including pieces by Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, William Russell Flint, LS Lowry, Laura Knight, Edward Wadsworth and Carel Weight and later 20th-century art given by the Contemporary Art Society by Craigie Aitchison including photography by the duo Boyd & Evans. It also holds the Fox collection, a rich array of ceramics featuring over forty items of Wemyss ware. it has a number of temporary exhibitions throughout the year alongside the display of its permanent collection.
