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
RPS Visual Art 2024 Photographic Exhibition
On display: 3rd May - 30th May
The Royal Photographic Society (RPS), Visual Art Subgroup (VAG) holds an annual travelling exhibition at various venues throughout the country. The group has an annual call for entry with its membership to submit their work for consideration to be shown at national level. Unlike many other special interest groups the Royal Photographic Society's Visual Art Group supports and encourages all genres of photography, and its activities encompass both traditional and contemporary interpretations across a wide variety of subject matter from still-life, landscape and architecture to portraiture and macro-photography. This exhibition is the culmination of their efforts displaying the highest quality of standard. Across all levels of distinction.
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.
exhibitions coming soon
Gypsy Makers
Exhibition: 5th June 2024 – 27th June 2024
The Gypsy Maker project has over the past ten years created a platform for Gypsy, Roma & Traveller (GRT) artists to develop their artistic practice over a defined period of time culminating in presentations of works in appropriate form (exhibition, performance, publication etc.). The resulting presentations have then been made available to the wider public, accompanied by open-access workshops and forums to allow the public to gain deeper understanding of the processes and themes of the artworks and the wider Gypsy Maker initiative.
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.