Glynn Vivian News

The UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize is delighted to announce exhibition details for its eleventh edition. Artes Mundi 11 with presenting partner Bagri Foundation (AM11) will feature six international contemporary visual artists and take place across Wales from 24 October 2025 to 1 March 2026.

The National Gallery today announced Singaporean artist Ming Wong as its new Artist in Residence for 2025. Wong has been invited to respond to the collections of the National Gallery and this year’s partner museum, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea.

The much-loved Swansea Open will return to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in 2025 in an exciting new format as part of a nationwide project, Come As You Really Are.

Come As You Really Are is a major new commission by Artangel and award-winning artist Hetain Patel. The exhibition features thousands of objects created or collected by hobbyists across the UK shown alongside a new artist film.

In July 2024, Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery will open a new exhibition, ‘Out of this World’, by Turner Prize nominated artist Heather Phillipson. An IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission in partnership with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.

The Wakelin Award is administered by the Friends of the Glynn Vivian and results in a work of fine art or craft being purchased for the Gallery collection. In 2021, the work was selected by artist, writer and curator Anthony Shapland, who is also a previous recipient of the award.

Over the course of one year, On Your Face, in partnership with Glynn Vivian, will be running monthly online workshops and talks led by queer creatives.

Glynn Vivian has launched a new, digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app, available for download from Google Play or the App Store, makes Glynn Vivian accessible for either onsite or offsite visits through photo, audio and video features offering insights into exhibitions, collections, and programme. 

The Russian Doll is Kristel Trow’s most intimate work to date, a series of new black and white photographic portraits of women who have experienced adversity in their lives. Multi award-winning writer and filmmaker, Will Millard, has also documented Kristel Trow’s journey to creating the work.

Sir Frank Brangwyn, R.A. (1867 – 1956) was one of Britain’s most prolific and versatile artists. The Brangwyn Panels, comprising 16 monumental paintings, are popularly considered his most significant achievement.

Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has been announced as one of nine network galleries in the national contemporary art gallery for Wales – a dispersed model aiming to bring Wales’ national contemporary art collection to communities across the country, free to all.

With presenting partner the Bagri Foundation, Artes Mundi, the UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize, has announced Taloi Havini (born Bougainville, Nakas/Hakö tribe; lives and works in Australia) as the winner of the Artes Mundi 10 (AM10) prize, with an award sum of £40,000.

Members of the public are invited to take part in ‘The Hobby Cave’, the largest ever exhibition of the UK’s hobbies.

The Swansea Open is an annual art competition open to anyone who lives or works in the City & County of Swansea (SA1-SA9) and is a celebration of art and craft from artists and makers throughout the city.

If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? How should Britain deal with its colonial past – internal and external?

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is looking for a new Associate Artist to research and deliver a series of workshops for people living with a disability.

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is delighted to announce the Wakelin Award recipient for 2022. The annual award is given to an artist living and working in Wales, whose work is purchased for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection, and will be on display at the Gallery in spring 2023.

Ten artworks from the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Permanent Collection have been selected to go on display in 10 Downing Street, as part of the ‘Number 10 Museums in Residence’ project, an initiative of the Government Art Collection.

The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea is delighted to present, in partnership with Bad Wolf, a look behind-the-scenes of BBC and HBO’s multi-award-winning, His Dark Materials.

This is a project to celebrate 200 years of University of Trinity St David and Swansea College of Art. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and GS Artists are putting together a celebration of art schools. This multi-faceted project will include workshops, talks, exhibitions, audio archive, and commissioned texts.

Glynn Vivian has recently received two new sculptural works by artist Carlos Bunga, for the Gallery’s permanent Collection, following his major exhibition, Terra Ferma, in 2021.

Would you be interested in working in partnership with Imperial War Museums (IWM) on a new art commission to explore the impacts of conflict from the First World War to the present day?

To mark the 102nd anniversary of the 1st Dada International Exhibition in Berlin, 31 d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists will stage Dada inspired interventions in 30 museums and galleries across Britain and Northern Ireland on the same day on 2 July 2022.

Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has become part of a major new Imperial War Museums (IWM) arts initiative aiming to highlight the enduring messages for our times of the legacies of conflict since World War I.

Join us this March as we celebrate International Women’s Day 2022 (IWD) by looking at some of the incredible work by women currently on display at the Glynn Vivian.

We’re delighted to announce Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has been selected as one of the recipients of the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, 2021.

Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has become the first in the UK to be awarded the accolade Art Gallery of Sanctuary.

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has commissioned a special series of performances as part of Carlos Bunga’s exhibition Terra Ferma.

Glynn Vivian is pleased to announce the return of the annual celebration of art and craft by artists and …

his summer, we begin a project working with artist Fox Irving and the surrounding area LGBTQ+ community in Swansea to co-curate a collection of objects, stories and artefacts in response to the Glynn Vivian collection.