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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]

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 — [5]
Merchant Navy Memorial Gilligan's Island 1990–91 Sebastien Boyesen — Statue on column Bronze, stone, cast stone — [1][6]

More images 		The Vision of Saint Gwynllyw 1993–1996 Sebastien Boyesen — Statue Bronze — [1][6]
This Little Piggy Went to Market Upper Dock Street 1994 Sebastien Boyesen — Statue Bronze — [7]
Mural for the Library, Art Gallery and Museum Newport Museum and Art Gallery, John Frost Square 1995 Sebastien Boyesen — Mural Aluminium tiles — [6]
VEVJ Memorial Commercial Street 1995 Sebastien Boyesen — Mural Granite, etched and cast bronze — [6]

More images 		David "Bomber" Pearce Boxing Memorial Riverside at Kutaisi Walk 2018 Laury Dizengremel — Statue Bronze [8]


Public art formerly in Newport

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Material Designation Notes
Chartist Mural

51°35′13″N 2°59′39″W / 51.58689°N 2.99419°W / 51.58689; -2.99419 		1978 (1978) Kenneth Budd — Mural — Controversially destroyed in 2013[9][10]


References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "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. ^ "Unity, Prudence, Energy". Art UK. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d Boyesen 1998, p. 32.
  7. ^ Boyesen 1998, p. 8.
  8. ^ "David "Bomber" Pearce Boxing Memorial". Art UK. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Newport mural demolition", ITV News, 5 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  10. ^ Sion Morgan, Elena Cresci, "Hundreds protest in Newport over destruction of Chartist mural", Wales Online, 5 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013

Bibliography

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