Galleries in Cardiff

For art lovers, Cardiff represents a dream location for relaxing city breaks. With several leading art galleries, beautiful scenery, and stunning architecture, the city provides feast of delights for the eye. And with internet sites such as lastminute.com offering great deals on last-minute hotels, there’s never been a better, or more cost-effective, time to visit! This is a rough guide to the more established art and craft galleries in the area. For more specific exhibition details it would be best to contact the individual galleries either on the phone or through their websites.

The National Museum of Cardiff is home to one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in Europe, featuring works by artists such as Cezanne, Renoir, and Monet.

The Chapter Arts Centre combines film, music, literature and art all under one roof. The gallery regularly holds exhibitions by artists from all over the world, and hosts the annual Experimentica festival showcasing work by some of the leading lights of the UK’s visual avant-garde.

The G39 art space showcases work by recent art graduates alongside more established international artists, with an emphasis on photography, video, sculpture, and installation.

The Ffotogallery is a gallery and workshop dedicated to, you guessed it, photography, providing regular photography courses and projects as well as exhibition space for local and international photographers

TactileBOSCH is an experimental art facility based in an old Victorian laundry in the Llandaff North area of Cardiff, consisting primarily of artist studios and an alternative exhibition space. The building hosts 10 artists in residence and provides studio and exhibition space for local, up and coming artists.

The Trace Gallery is a gallery dedicated to time-based art with interactive, sonic, and performance-based elements. Curated by the world-renowned artist Andre Stitt, it regularly houses month-long shows by international artists as well as one-off live presentations.

The Butetown History and Arts Centre is an innovative scheme involving professional artists and researchers in collaboration with local people in order to collect and preserve the old photographs and oral histories of the people of Cardiff and present them in the form of exhibitions and courses.

The Martin Tinney Gallery is a private, commercial art gallery dedicated to exhibiting and selling artworks by some of the best Welsh and Wales-based artists.

The Castle Gallery is another commercial gallery specialising in exhibiting and selling high-quality prints of landscape, figurative and contemporary work by leading Welsh artists.