Ffotogallery

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Ffotogallery
Formation1978
Legal statusCharity
PurposeNational development agency for photography in Wales
Location
  • The Old Sunday School, Fanny Street, Cathays, Cardiff, Wales CF24 4EH
Region
Wales
Official language
Welsh and English
Website www.ffotogallery.org

Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales. [1] It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in Cathays, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current director is David Drake. From 2003 to 2019 Ffotogallery used Turner House Gallery in Penarth as its gallery.

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Background

Turner House Gallery in Penarth, Ffotogallery's exhibition space from 2003 to 2019. Ffotogallery - Turner House, Penarth - geograph.org.uk - 1151910.jpg
Turner House Gallery in Penarth, Ffotogallery's exhibition space from 2003 to 2019.

Ffotogallery is a national organisation and has an exhibition programme featuring artists from Wales and the rest of the world. It features touring exhibitions, collaborations with other organisations and galleries, print and online publishing and an education and outreach programme. Ffotogallery also works with film and video, digital media and installation.

In 2003 it acquired Turner House Gallery in Penarth, near Cardiff, from the National Museum of Wales and used it for photography-based exhibitions. [2] Its administration and education programme was based in Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. [3] In 2009 David Drake took over as director, from Chris Coppock who had been director for 19 years. [4]

In 2016 Penarth town council suggested they planned to convert Turner House into a food outlet. [5] In June 2019 Ffotogallery moved to The Old Sunday School on Fanny Street, Cathays, Cardiff. [6]

Ffotogallery receives regular funding from the Arts Council of Wales, for example receiving £198,688 in 2015/16 and a similar amount in 2016/2017. [7]

Projects

Ffotogallery organises Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography. [8] The biannual festival was held in 2013, [9] focusing on Europe, in 2015 when the title was "Looking for America" and in 2017 when under the theme 'Revolution.' The fourth instalment took place in April 2019 with the theme Sound + Vision, exploring the relationship between sound, photography and lens-based media. [10]

In 2023 Ffotogallery ran a scheme with MADE Cardiff, to support graduate photographers, with a Ffotogallery exhibition to be held in November 2023. [11]

Commissions

Major Ffotogallery commissions made in and about Wales over the last three decades include The Valleys Project, A470 and Barrage. These have featured alongside important new work made in single artist projects such as Keith Arnatt, Josef Koudelka, Peter Finnemore, Willie Doherty, Peter Fraser, Wendy McMurdo, John Davies, Catherine Yass and Bedwyr Williams.

Exhibitions

Some of the exhibitions Ffotogallery has hosted at Turner House include:

At other venues:

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