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Mission Gallery is divided into two areas, an exhibition space and a craft space. The craft space features a changing display of contempt craft, and applied art and design. |
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The building has disabled access, once inside the exhibition space and the craft space are on one level. |
The building has disabled access, once inside the exhibition space and the craft space are on one level. |
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Mission Gallery is an independent art gallery in Swansea, Wales.
The gallery hosts contemporary art, painting, installation, photography and craft. Formally St Nicholas Church for seamen, Mission Gallery was Designed by Benjamin Bucknall and built in 1886. The building became an art gallery in 1977, named Swansea Arts Workshop Gallery. An arts initiative, it was managed and run by a group of artists and volunteers as part of the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales, linked with Swansea Studios. Since the dissolution of the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales in 1992, Mission Gallery and Swansea Studios are now separate organisations, with Mission Gallery receving grant funding from the Arts Council of Wales. In 2003 Mission Gallery Become a revenue client of the Arts Council of Wales, resulting in its first full time paid member of staff.
Mission Gallery is divided into two areas, an exhibition space and a craft space. The craft space features a changing display of contempt craft, and applied art and design.
The Building
The building has disabled access, once inside the exhibition space and the craft space are on one level.