Newport Museum and Art Gallery

http://www.newport.gov.uk/_dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=museumheritage.artgallery

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.

Newport holds a small collection of work by post-war artists including pieces by Stanley Spencer, William Russell Flint, LS Lowry, Laura Knight, Edward Wadsworth and Stanhope Forbes.

The gallery also holds the Fox collection, a rich array of ceramics featuring over forty items of Wemyss ware. The gallery holds a number of temporary exhibitions throughout the year alongside the display of its permanent collection.

Editor's note:
Located within a 1960s shopping arcade, the art gallery and museum is part of a town-planned endeavour of a previous era. The pedestrianised walkways suddenly open out on to a broad square; in front is a large building which houses the gallery.

There are plans to move to another site but in the meantime the collections and exhibitions are hung in a series of spaces that struggle to show the work at its best. The great commitment of the curator makes a generous welcome and the collections provide lots of surprises.