the riverfront gallery
The Riverfront Gallery hosts a broad spectrum of diverse and exciting arts exhibitions throughout the year. We are proud to host exhibitions by professional and emerging artists, sculptors, community groups, and schools. From photography to film, textile to graphics, fine art to performance art, the gallery provides a perfect platform to showcase work to the hundreds of visitors who come into The Riverfront each week.
Current Exhibitions...
Birds of Gwent: Celebrating our local birdlife
Photographers who are members of Gwent Ornithological Society (GOS) have come together to create an exhibition that showcases the diverse birdlife that can be found in Gwent’s natural landscape. Featuring over seventy images, the show includes a wide range of wild birds that live in the area’s natural habitats ranging from Newport Wetlands to the uplands of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.
Exhibition co-ordinator, James Graham, said:
‘In the exhibition, we aim to celebrate the precious birdlife that lives in our area and to show why it is worth protecting and conserving. This is why among the seventy images we have shortlisted, we have included photographs of Curlew and Swift which the society is targeting as priority species and Nightjar, Dipper and Barn Owl – three species that are included in Gwent Wildlife Trust’s Ten vulnerable species campaign. Our hope is that visitors will enjoy the pictures of beautiful birds and feel inspired to get involved with monitoring and protecting our birds and the wider environment’.
Accompanying photos by Blair Jones
For further information visit: www.gwentbirds.org.uk
Open 29th March - 26th April
Landscapes on the Edge
A series of black and white and colour photographs, taken on the Gwent Levels by Martin Wilcox over the last three years. Each photograph is accompanied by some poetry or prose to, hopefully enhance the mood of the images taken in this ancient landscape of reens, reeds and marshes.
Martin has been taking photographs for over fifty years and has had work published and exhibited as well as providing hundreds of pictures online with a major picture agency. His passion is black and white photography with many hours spent in the darkroom in the early years, but now mercifully, much more time spent outside taking photos thanks to the digital age.
Opening Date: 3 October 2023
Location: Mezzanine Gallery
May love be what you remember most by CONSUMERSMITH
This piece, ‘May love be what you remember most,' stands as a memorial for life lost in recent times. The elderly, the vulnerable, the isolated people, the lonely people, the widows, the people in care unable to be visited through this global chaos and new age.
It was originally installed in the street but then moved to its current location at The Riverfront, where it can be viewed from outside the building through the glass.
AJ Smith who as an artist goes by the name of CONSUMERSMITH creates work that leaps between contemporary abstract expressionism and pop/street art portraiture. He is a prolific painter who has sold and created work worldwide and continues to sell and create work at a Steady rate - private commissions on paper or canvas to small- and large-scale murals for commercial properties, schools and homes. With his roots in graffiti and street art, CONSUMERSMITH is pushing boundaries of self-expression with vibrant work that is full of movement, colour and freedom.
“Movement and colour understand each other ‘’ - Consumersmith
We are currently selling prints of this artwork to raise money for future community activities.
Past Exhibitions...
If you are interested in exhibiting in our gallery please email Sally-Anne Evans at sally-anne.evans@newportlive.co.uk or call 01633 656757.