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The Albany Gallery is a commercial art gallery in Roath, Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1965 by Mary Yapp.^[1]

The Albany Gallery was created by former farmer Mary Yapp and artist David Griffiths, whom Yapp had met in Pwllheli where Griffiths held an annual summer exhibition. Griffiths expressed an interest in opening a gallery in Cardiff and they found suitable premises on Albany Road, Roath. Griffiths left after 6 months to concentrate on his painting. Yapp ran the gallery for 25 years with a friend, Joan Hughes, then after that ran the gallery by herself.^[2]

Yapp became the agent for Kyffin Williams.^[3] A Kyffin Williams exhibition at the Albany Gallery in October 2004 saw people sleeping overnight outside the gallery, in the hope of buying one of his works.^[4]