Eight Welsh-based artists will be exhibiting contemporary works alongside pictures from the Newport Museum and Art Gallery’s permanent collect from Saturday, 20 November.
Face Value will feature self-portraits, or paintings that feature the human face, and follows the success of previous in-house exhibitions The Art of the Nude and Limited Edition.
Artworks from the collections will be juxtaposed with new work by invited artists, living or working in Wales and can be seen until 5 February at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery in John Frost Square.
The exhibition is about portraiture in the broadest sense where the face is significant within the composition but not always central to it.
It will include the recently restored Llaregyb by David Griffiths, together with work by Jacob Epstein, Merlyn Evans, Harry Holland, R. B. Kitaj, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stanley Lewis, Tom Rathmell, David Roberts, Sir William Rothenstein, Gerald Scarfe, and Charles Spencelayh, and many others.
The eight working artists are Rita Brown, David Griffiths, Shani Rhys James, Christine Kinsey, Neil McNally, Jamie Routley, Alan Salisbury and Richard Wills.
A preview for Face Value takes place at 6.30pm on Friday 19 November. The exhibition will be opened by Dr Ceri Thomas, curator of the University of Glamorgan art collections.
For further information on the exhibition please contact 01633 656656 or visit www.newport.gov.uk/artgallery
