Workers Gallery

@workersgallery

Small but fierce artist-led studio, #gallery & workshop in S #Wales valleys. Est 2014.Resident artists Chris Williams & Gayle Rogers. #Art & Sport, Graphic Novels, #Photography & Sculpture. Cargo e-bike tours/delivery. Also 'Friends of the Workers Gallery'

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Workers Gallery@workersgallery· 18d

It's #smallpressday 🥳 *We've a social & share - just pop in *Exhibition of art from Noisy Valley, The Art of Protest by @myfanwytristram.bsky.social *Artist in Residence Gayle Rogers’ zine-in-progress *Explore our community #GraphicNovel library.For more events see @smallpressday.bsky.social

Mid yellow poster with illustrations in simple cartoonist style. Main image at top shows figures on a green path. Poster says Small Press Day 10am-5pm Saturday 25th July 2026.

Image of several pieces of art framed and unframed on a mustard yellow wall.

Front cover of Noisy Valley graphic novel by Myfanwy Tristram. Shows colourful drawn figures shouting and holding placards with a hilly landscape behind.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jul 13

Meet and Make Friends - all welcome! Wednesday 15th July 12-2pm Get creative or pop in for a cuppa and a chat. This small social hey together is for those living with #dementia, their friends, family and carers. A small friendly group run by #volunteers from the Friends of the Workers Gallery.

Poster in dark yellow, mid blue and white. Top is two speech bubbles overlapped one saying Meet and Make Friends the other contains cartoon images including a camera, musical notes, knitting and some one drinking from a dotty cup.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jul 10

Noisy Valley #exhibition of artwork by comics creator @myfanwytristram.bsky.social continues 10am-5pm Saturdays or make an appointment to visit on a week day www.workersgallery.co.uk/contact Video clip from recent #artist talk with Myf and Annie (chair of Friends of the Workers #Gallery).

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· May 30

Noisy Valley launch & celebration at the Workers Gallery! Thanks to everyone who contributed to the event and especially @myfanwytristram.bsky.social for taking the protest stories of the Valleys out into the world with such kindness, care and creativity! Thanks too to @selfmadehero.bsky.social 🤗

Photo of a white walled gallery interior with people seated in rows listening to two people talking.

Photo of seated audience in a white walled gallery interior listening to two people seated opposite them.

Poster for Noisy Valley exhibition at the Workers Gallery with info pasted over a digitally drawn image of three figures standing on a hillside.

Front cover of book Noisy Valley with protesters holding placards that say the art of protest - Myfanwy Tristram. Front prominent figure has long blue hair. In background there are mountains in varying shades of green.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· May 23

Many thanks to Martyn Joseph for sharing details of the launch celebration of Noisy Valley by @myfanwytristram.bsky.social www.facebook.com/100057736645... #GraphicNovel #Rhondda #WorkersGallery

Poster in bright colours for launch and celebration of Noisy Valley graphic novel. Image of book shows protesters in a hilly valleys landscape.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Apr 4

What's that smell? Find out by visiting the Rhondda Drawn and Read exhibition this Easter Saturday. We're open 10am-5pm with free zines and a warm welcome awaiting you! www.workersgallery.co.uk Image by Millie from a zine created for the Rhondda stories project.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Apr 4

Open Easter Saturday 10am-5pm. Grab an envelope & decorate it yourself or here's some visitors made earlier. Then fill your boots with FREE #zines from the #Rhondda Drawn & Read #art show. Enjoy illustrated celebratory stories and memories of & by the Rhondda community 🙂🥳! www.workersgallery.co.uk

Hand decorated envelope with the central motif being an arched rectangle. In it is a cartoon style drawing of two figures seated in a scooter in a sunny hilly landscape. They are smiling. The words beneath are in bold black and say Rhondda Drawn and Read.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Feb 21

Resident artist Gayle is remembering her ancestor, Busby Babe, England & Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards today on the 21st February. Today is the anniversary of his death from injuries sustained in the Munich Air Disaster 1958. Drawings from work in progress of her graphic novel.

Drawing in deep blue pencil of a figure next to a grave covered in flowers and football related offerings

Drawing in mid blue pencil of a figure holding flowers and a bag. They look up to a statue of a footballer.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Feb 17

All welcome! This Wednesday. Enjoy creative activities and the company of others! 3rd Wednesday of every month 12-2pm Meet and Make Friends For those living with dementia and their family, friends and carers. From the Friends of the Workers Gallery #dementia #gallery

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Feb 15

Our latest exhibition has a poster that you're invited to colour in yourself! Rhondda Drawn and Read is examples of celebratory illustrated memories and stories of and by the Rhondda Fach community. Open Saturdays 10am-5pm Launch of zines event Saturday 7th March! #comics #zines #community

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Feb 6

Today, 6th February is the anniversary of the 1958 #Munich Air Disaster. This mini zine was created by Worker's artist Gayle Rogers whose ancestor Duncan Edwards died from the injuries he sustained in the plane crash. He was 21 years old. Thinking of all those affected by the loss of loved ones.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jan 25

Really enjoyed being immersed in Kathy Burke's world of family & friends, taxi drivers, theatre, TV & film folks. It's a written with a unique voice that you don't often get a chance to hear above all the pompous chatter. #KathyBurke #book

Book being held on the left with just a thumb visible. Book is in an acid orange with a central portrait photo in black and white with 3 similar portraits below in a horizontal row. Large black blocky text at top says Kathy Burke. Smaller white text below it says a mind of my own.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jan 25

Last chance to see the Winter Open exhibition is Saturday 31st January. It's a mixed show of nearly 40 artists celebrating creativity and the joy of coming together through art. See poster for details. Or visit www.workersgallery.co.uk

Poster in muted yellows and earthy brown. Image is a linocut of a figures hair morphing into a tee with a bird atop of a branch singing out. Heading in yellow is a rounded bold font in a mustard yellow says winter Open. Artists and the venue details are listed in mainly black type below.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jan 19

This Wednesday! Monthly Meet and Make Friends group for those living with dementia and their family, friends and carers. Free friendly group to join or just pop in for a chat. From the Friends of the Workers Gallery and a team of volunteers.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Nov 22

Last chance to vote in the People's Choice Award🥈 Get yourself here!🏃🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏿🏃🏽‍♂️ Saturday 10am-5pm 22nd November 2025 The Friends of the Workers Gallery's Winter Open continues until January 2026. It's a great mix of painting, sculpture, design, craft, drawing & print making! www.workersgallery.co.uk

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Nov 1

Artists and Photographers! Friends of the Workers Gallery Winter Open Exhibition It's hand in day! Don't forget to bring your entry form. For timings, entry form and information follow links on poster. 99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 0EN. #art #photography #Wales #Rhondda

Poster for Friends of the Workers Gallery open art exhibition. Image is a landscape on a bight day. A hand appears to be holding an instant photo that shows the words Winter Open.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Oct 14

Our 11th birthday 🎂 is approaching - which means our annual insurance renewal is too 😱 So if you've been planning to join our Patreon Community www.patreon.com/artgayle or to buy an item from our shop www.workersgallery.co.uk/shop Now would be a great time to do that! Diolch! 🙂 Thanks! 👍

Facade of the Workers Gallery with shutter wrap of a photo of a streetscape of back lanes. A pink hoarding is above

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Sep 19

It's important to take time to enjoy & celebrate our capacity to be joyful, playful & thoughtful Take time to do that with us, at the Workers See From The Needle & From The Trees exhibitions Saturdays 10am-5pm or make a weekday appointment www.workersgallery.co.uk #wood #sculpture #textiles #art

Interior of a white walled gallery photographing a quilt with 4 leaves and curvy wood sculpture in a corner

Hanging on a white wall is a colourful patchwork quilt with 3 large sunflowers.

Poster for exhibition of sculptures called from the trees. Central photo is of a person rolling a spikey wood sculpture through a stream.

Poster for From the Needle exhibition of quilts. Image along left edge is of a quilt with 4falling leaves in various colours.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Sep 17

Today! The Friends of the Workers Gallery will be at this community event Wednesday 27 September 10am - 1pm if you'd like to pop in - or up? to hear about their current group activities & what you'd like to see them do in the future!

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Sep 12

Gorgeous textile art from Christine Bowen. Her 'From the Needle' exhibition of quilts is the perfect partner celebrating nature to Chris Williams' 'From the Trees' sculpture show. Open Saturdays 10am-5pm or contact for appointment www.workersgallery.co.uk/contact #art #textile #Wales #TextileArt

Quilt on wall with design of a feathery leafed tree in a landscape depicted in mint greens and bronzes.

Multicoloured blocked quilt in yellows, browns, oranges, whites and blacks.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Sep 1

GALLERY NEWS! See you Friday 5th September 6.45-8.45pm for the launch of not 1 but 2 new exhibitions: From The Trees by @masterwoodchip.bsky.social & From The Needle by @helyg.bsky.social Chris will reflect on his 1 month long residency adventure at Welcome To Our Woods, Treherbert.

Poster for From The Trees and exhibition of sculptures created during an outdoors residency at Sausage Camp by Chris Williams. Launch event strap line in red. Photo of spikey wood sculpture being rolled through water by Chris in light blue t-shirt and grey trousers.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 31

Thanks to all who visited Outsiders by @marcdavenant.bsky.social at the gallery & who requested/saw the boxed version at events. We'll be continuing to share the work with local community groups & those unable to reach the gallery & their carers. www.workersgallery.co.uk/whatsonvisit

Poster for Outsiders exhibition by Marc Davenant - subtitled Journeys through homelessness. Image centrally is a photo of a portrait photo on a dark surface next to spent cigarettes and coffee cup reflected.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 22

😍Week in pics-up the Workers Friends of the Workers-Meet & Make Friends Group (for those living with #dementia, their family, friends & carers) making keyrings with Jan! Gayle progressing with her #football history graphic novel in progress. Chris #camera spotting in Merthyr's Cyfarthfa Castle

3 bright coloured bead keyrings saying Cymru, Cariad & Yma o Hyd

Photo of table top with beads and cups of tea on, during craft session.

Lined page of notebook with several black ink drawings of heads in a cartoon style.

Interior if museum with large plate antique box camera being looked at by figure with mid brown t-shirt and shorts blonde hair.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 17

Cheerful #art post alert! Thanks @davidmayne2.bsky.social for being a great sport (& model) at the #gallery yesterday. 2 young artists popped in & created these wonderful portraits of & for David! We've a space for #artists of all ages to pop in & get creative www.workersgallery.co.uk #drawing

Person (called David Mayne) holding up two drawn portraits of him made by young visitors to the gallery. One is on a clip board - both are on white A4 paper. David is smiling and has short cropped hair and beard and sunglasses on
He is smiling. His portraits look like him and are super cool.

Drawn portrait in cartoon style of a person with short red/brown/grey hair and beard with dark sunglasses.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 14

Carthen Bench Welsh Handmade Furniture by @masterwoodchip.bsky.social Locally sourced chestnut with a distinct carthen design. Destined to be an heirloom piece. 90cm long. Collect in person from the gallery or delivered within a 50 mile radius. Live further away? contact us for a delivery cost.

Close up photo of long chunky wooden bench at an angle to show bench top geometric pattern.

Photo of long chunky wooden bench with bench top showing a geometric pattern.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 6

You can browse original art and reproduction prints by Welsh artist Kevin Sinnott in person at the Workers Gallery and a selection of items on line at www.workersgallery.co.uk/shop We also exhibit handmade furniture, drawings and paintings by other artists here in Wales. #art #gallery #wales

Painting of two figures floating in a black sky with blue flecks. The top figure has a yellow top and mid brown trousers. The figure below is only visible from the waist up and wears a white sleeveless petticoat.

Details of a poster print of figures in the street awhinappear to be from a circus troop just arrived in a village. There are trunks in the foreground and a pot head in the background.

Poster laying flat on floor. It depicts a painting of two figures running past the corner of a terraced street

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Aug 6

Just a reminder - This evening's event has been cancelled. Check out @thewallich.bsky.social for an alternative event running in Cardiff later this month. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Poster for cancelled event called Outsiders Stories from the Margins by The Wallich at the Workers Gallery. Image of a head and shoulders of a man facing the viewer with a wooden hoodie pulled over his head.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jul 31

NOW ON Outsiders #photography exhibition by Marc Davenant @marcdavenant.bsky.social at the Workers #Gallery Open Saturdays 10am-5pm or visit by appointment. We are also hosting a special event in collaboration with @thewallich.bsky.social in August-see poster for details. www.workersgallery.co.uk

Poster for Outsiders Stories from the Margins event at the Workers Gallery with The Wallich. Black & white photo depicts head & shoulders of Stephen in dark jacket with lighter coloured wool hoodie. Photo by Marc Davenant

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jul 25

Join us and get creative! Rhondda Drawn and Read Comics workshop! This Saturday 26th July 12-4pm 😁Family fun up the Workers😁 www.workersgallery.co.uk #comics #Rhondda

Poster in a cartoon panel style for workshops for Rhondda Drawn and Read. Colourful panels are behind white thought bubbles, exclamations and speech bubbles.

Workers Gallery@workersgallery· Jul 21

We had a lovely launch of Rhondda Drawn and Read on Saturday. Missed it? Never fear we're back at the Workers on Saturday 26th July for another creative family fun session 12 noon - 4pm Join our comics workshop with resident artist Gayle Rogers and tell us your memories, aspirations & stories!