List of public art in Newport, Wales

This is a list of public art in Newport , South Wales.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Material	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
More images	Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet	Bridge Street	1848	John Evan Thomas	—	Seated statue on pedestal	Bronze & stone	Grade II	Q29483019	[1] [2]
	War memorial	Clarence Place	1923	Cyril Bates & Colin Jones	—	Cenotaph	Limestone	Grade II	Q29503127	[3] [4]
	History of Newport	Central Hall, Newport Civic Centre	1964	Hans Feibusch & Phyllis Bray	12 murals	Paint	Each mural approx 8m high by 4 to 4.5m wide	Grade II* Listed building		. [5] [6]
More images	Archform	Newport railway station	1980		—	Sculpture	Steel	—
More images	Stand and Stare, a tribute to W.H. Davies	Commercial Street, Newport	1990	Paul Bothwell Kincaid	—	Sculpture	Bronze	—		[1]
More images	The Steel Wave	Riverside at Town Reach	1991	Pete Fink	—	Sculpture	Steel	—		[1]
More images	Unity, Prudence, Energy - the Chartist Commemoration Sculpture	Commercial Road	Unveiled 1990	Christopher Kelly	—	Four-part sculpture group	Bronze	—		[7]
	Merchant Navy Memorial	Gilligan's Island	1990–91	Sebastien Boyesen	—	Statue on column	Bronze, stone, cast stone	—		[1] [8]
More images	The Vision of Saint Gwynllyw		1993–1996	Sebastien Boyesen	—	Statue	Bronze	—		[1] [8]
	This Little Piggy Went to Market	Upper Dock Street	1994	Sebastien Boyesen	—	Statue	Bronze	—		[9]
	Mural for the Library, Art Gallery and Museum	Newport Museum and Art Gallery, John Frost Square	1995	Sebastien Boyesen	—	Mural	Aluminium tiles	—		[8]
	VE VJ Memorial	Commercial Street	1995	Sebastien Boyesen	—	Mural	Granite, etched and cast bronze	—		[8]
More images	David "Bomber" Pearce Boxing Memorial	Riverside at Kutaisi Walk	2018	Laury Dizengremel	—	Statue	Bronze			[10]
	Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda	Millennium Walk	2024	Jane Robbins	—	Statue	Bronze			[11] [12]

Public art formerly in Newport

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Chartist Mural	51°35′13″N2°59′39″W / 51.58689°N 2.99419°W / 51.58689; -2.99419	1978 (1978)	Kenneth Budd	—	Mural		—		Controversially destroyed in 2013 [13] [14]

References

1. "Arts and culture". Newport City Council. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
2. "Pedestal & Statue of Sir Charles Morgan". Cadw. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
3. Derek Boorman (1988). At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials. William Sessions Limited. ISBN   1 85072 041 X.
4. "War memorial". Cadw. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
5. "Marking 60 years of Civic Centre murals". Newport City Council. 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
6. Cadw. "Newport Civic Centre (22333)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
7. "Unity, Prudence, Energy". Art UK . Retrieved 11 August 2024.
8. Boyesen 1998, p. 32.
9. Boyesen 1998, p. 8.
10. "David "Bomber" Pearce Boxing Memorial". Art UK. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
11. Mair Jones (17 December 2024). "Queer Welsh women in art". Art UK . Retrieved 17 December 2024.
12. "The Statue of Lady Rhondda". Monumental Welsh Women. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
13. "Newport mural demolition", ITV News , 5 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
14. Sion Morgan, Elena Cresci, "Hundreds protest in Newport over destruction of Chartist mural", Wales Online, 5 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013

Bibliography

• Boyesen, Sebastien (1998), The Vision of Saint Gwynllyw and Other Stories, Llandysul: Gomer

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in Newport, Wales at Wikimedia Commons