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

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Birds of Gwent: Celebrating our local birdlife

Location: Main Art Gallery
Dates: 29th March - 26th April

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.

For further information visit: www.gwentbirds.org.uk

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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.

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exhibitions coming soon

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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.

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.