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Welcome to the g39 shop, where you can buy publications, artworks, other merchandise and book for workshops.
For some of our publications we invite you to nominate the price you pay rather than setting a fixed price, so you can support g39 and have a good read without breaking the bank.
The Centre Is Here:
Alternative Art Schools
Organised by g39/ Warp and Chapter, Cardiff, this will be the ninth in a series of symposia discussing the key issues of making and exhibiting contemporary art in Wales. TCIH: Alternative art schools will look at the current climate of art education and how, with the perceived failure of traditional art schools, new peer-led learning initiatives might propose alternative modes of art education. Confirmed speakers include; Maurice Carlin, artist and founding member of Islington Mill Art Academy; Pippa Koszerek, Artist and founder of the Independent Art School; and Sara Nunes Fernades and Rachel Haines, artists, and students/ founding members of The School of the Damned.
If you haven't already done so, please confirm your attendance by emailing sean@g39.org with the subject header TCIH.
RRP: £13.50
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It Was Never Going To Be Straightforward
It Was Never Going To Be Straightforward is a compendium of the first 13 years of the g39 project. The book charts a rambling route through g39’s history from the first exhibition that opened on 3 July 1998 to the last that closed on 2 July 2011. It marks the years that the project was based in Wyndham Arcade in Cardiff city centre.
Designed by Height Studio and printed by Eclipse in Cardiff. Edited by Emma Geliot.
Softback, 168pp full colour, 250x219mm. ISBN 978-0-9564952-1-1
RRP: £19.95
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If you have been accepted for a forthcoming One-to-One session you can pay in advance here via PayPal. You'll receive a confirmation of your payment and receipt by email.
RRP: £3.50
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Simon Holly print
No. 60126 Sir Vincent Raven at York (2010)
For this incredibly ambitious drawing Simon Holly studied an archive image of York railway station from 1950s. Isolating 1cm2 at a time, he recreated each fragment from memory using graphite and charcoal pencils. The resulting fragments were then reassembled back into a memorised version that bears a startling accuracy to the original image.
Simon Holly is interested in the process of sampling, taking a mass of visual information and reconstructing it. Working with glossy low-culture posters or popular imagery he deconstructs and meticulously re-assembles them, transformed and subverted.
Ed. 20, 70x50cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Casey Raymond print
Splendiferous snouts, curious crevices (2010)
Renowned for his graphic work, music videos, zines and design work, Casey creates and invents a world of offbeat characters that inhabit absurd dark worlds or situations.
b. 1978 Cardiff, Lives and works in Cardiff.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Peter Finnemore Print
The Age of Saints (2010)
Peter Finnemore is photographic artist who works within a context of fine art ideas. His images evolve from an ongoing artistic investigation which began as an exploration into the notion of home, memory, story and history within a Welsh cultural context.
His photographic artwork can be seen as a construction of ideas, blending fact and fiction, history and myth, observation and manufacture.
Ed. 20, 70x50cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Richard Bevan Print
Split Second (2010)
Richard Bevan’s work deals with the tension between film as a medium and light as its agent. It sidesteps the nostalgic trappings of film and offers the viewer the chance to experience a lyrical and contemporary aspect of the medium’s processes. His use of film technology is such that it also interrogates photographic traditions.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Will Woon Print
A Monument to Mr Berlusconi (2010)
At a cursory level, Will Woon’s practice may seem rooted rather soberly in the traditional, referencing Classical sculpture and notable historical figures. While this is true, it doesn’t take long for an inquisitive viewer to spot another level where his idiosyncrasies and obscure nuttiness are at play.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Hahnemule Photographic paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Manon Awst & Benjamin Walther Print
Cop out (2010)
Awst & Walther's backgrounds in architecture and theatre strongly influence their exploration into relationships between human beings and their physical surroundings. The couple work with a range of media including sculpture, performance, drawing and installation. With their subtle yet critical approach, they put society's governing values and accepted codes of behavior under scrutiny.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Miranda Whall Print
Untitled (2010)
Whall constructs fantasy scenarios, making humorous, unlikely and uncanny connections, dynamics and relationships. Whall's work is extremely personal, exhibitionist and explicit, representing her sexual, fertile, expressive and intimate self in order to draw attention to and discuss the appropriateness and place for the politics surrounding feminine identity and of trying to be the author and owner of her own sexual and feminine image.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Pascal-Michel Dubois Print
Meteor IV (2010)
Michel-Dubois' practice can be seen as a device to invite the spectator to question and investigate our familiar fields of knowledge and imagination. The material of the everyday initiates his curiosity. Dubois is interested in the capacity that art owns to take you from that space in that moment, to another space. He regards his work as an idle observation of life like a doodle, therefore, it is always in the making, constantly re-interpreting the fabric of reality.
Ed. 20, 70x50cm, printed on Hahnemule Photographic paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Jo Berry Print
Untitled (2010)
Jo Berry often works with images either cut from newspapers or taken with a mobile phone camera, coloured copied or re-photographed. Painted with an airbrush, the paintings become distanced from the original image suggesting an alternative meaning or exaggerating an element of the original, a blurring of both the image and the meaning.
Berry’s paintings have a dreamy or unreal quality coming from the sense of time slowed down. Due to their subject matter’s origin, there is a small sense of recognition resulting in a feeling of dislocation.
Ed. 20, 70x50cm, printed on Hahnemule Museum Etching paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
RRP: £100.00
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Bedwyr Williams Print
Max Beuys (2010)
Bedwyr Williams' work employs a deadpan humour and a surreal fascination with life, often in the guise of various characters such as a florist, the Grim Reaper or a Welsh Bard.
No one seems to be off limits to Williams’ club comic performances, crude drawings or sculptural installations that poke a finger at everything from artists’ egos, national identity to the ludicrousness of someone’s trousers. Although not immediately obvious, there is a real tenderness and heart to much of his work, albeit combined with the randomness of an internet search or pub conversation.
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on Innova Fibraprint Warmtone Gloss paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
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S Mark Gubb print
The new pornography (2010)
The subjects for S Mark Gubb's work are drawn from the social and political culture he grew up in; an equal fascination with things he finds so great and so terrible about the world we live in. Often drawing on music and religious forms of communication Gubb suggests a wider discourse around history, culture and belief systems, inviting us to reflect on our moral codes and desire and ability to impact upon and change the world we inhabit.
(Excerpt from Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool.)
Ed. 20, 50x70cm, printed on photoglossy paper using Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and Ultrachrome HDR. Lightfast up to 75 years. Will be dispatched in a postal tube (or can be collected from g39 wrapped flat in cellophane with card backing)
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Show One Of Each 3
g39 solo season 2008-9
Show One Of Each raises the profile of some of the artists g39 considers to be the most innovative and relevant in Wales.
Featuring: Jackie Chettur, Simon Holly and Rebecca Spooner. Newly commissioned texts by Anders Pleass, Yuri Caul and Virginia Head. Introduction by Anthony Shapland.
Paperback, 64pp full colour, 172x133mm, Welsh + English. ISBN: 978-0-9564952-0-4
RRP: £4.95
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Show One Of Each 2
g39 solo season 2008
Show One Of Each raises the profile of some of the artists g39 considers to be the most innovative and relevant in Wales.
Featuring: Anna Barratt, Mike Murray and Neil McNally. Newly commissioned texts by Louise Short, Barry Thomas and Michel Houellebecq. Introduction by Anthony Shapland.
Paperback, 64pp full colour, 172x133mm, Welsh + English. ISBN: 978-0-9541810-9-3
RRP: £4.95
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Richard Bevan
To coincide with his solo exhibition at g39, Richard Bevan has produced a unique publication compiling various personal responses to Richard’s work from selected practitioners, friends, and colleagues of the artist. Contributors include: Qasim Ashfaq, Aishan Yu, Alexandra Hughes, Chris Grygiel, Chris Brown, Michael Cousin, Sean Edwards, Jayne Parker, Kianoosh Motallebi, Klaas Hoek, Lucy Bevan, Nick McDonald, Rachel Bevan, Rebecca Spooner, Revati Mann, and Tamsin Clark.
Softback; pp56; 235x170mm; limited edition of 500 (100 each with red, orange, yellow, green and blue softcovers); ISBN:978-0-9541810-8-6
RRP: £5.00
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Feedback
'Four months ago one of my films posted on You Tube was inexplicably highlighted in a Google search. Thousands of people viewed it in a matter of days. I was inundated with comments; many were angry and often included personal attacks. At first I deleted them, then I tried to answer some of them but was usually met with more anger and/or ridicule. Finally as the views approached one million I decided to package all the comments: good, bad and undecipherable into this book. They are printed in chronological order.'
A publication to compliment Alex Pearl's 'A Series of Little Deaths' films from 'For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn' curated by Michael Cousin.
Paperback.
RRP: £15.00
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Bad Thoughts
This book by Alex Pearl contains a number of bad thoughts donated, in the main, by the citizens of Bury St Edmunds. The thoughts range from the mildly amusing to the fairly disturbing and if you are of delicate disposition or tender years you should perhaps tread carefully.
In conjunction with 'For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn' curated by Michael Cousin.
Paperback;
RRP: £15.00
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Found Notes
1999 - 2009
Found Notes is a collection by the artist Sarah Chilvers commissioned especially for the 'For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn' show. The limited edition (100) book collects together for the first time a series of notes discovered over the last ten years.
Curated by Michael Cousin.
Paperback; pp80.
RRP: £6.00
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One In The Other
g39 guest curated season 2006-08
This catalogue completes the g39 One In The Other exhibition programme which was guest curated by a selection of the most promising independent artist-curators practising in Wales in 2006-08. Includes exhibitions by Sean Edwards, Cassandra Needham, Real Institute, Grace Davies, Rob Lowe, and Mermaid and Monster.
Softback; pp 128; 170x133mm; English + Welsh; ISBN 978-0-9541810-6-2
RRP: £6.95
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Flourish
Art from Wales
>>>FLOURISH (2005) was one of a series of exhibitions of new work from Wales that has come about through the work of Wales Arts International. WAI introduced two organisations g39 and the Moravská Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, host to a large collection as well as changing contemporary exhibitions. Curated by Marek Pokorný & Anthony Shapland
Featured artists: David Cushway, Eve Dent, Cerith Wyn Evans, Craig Wood, Meriel Herbert, Gordon Dalton, Neal Rock, Sara Rees, Bedwyr Williams, Angharad Pearce-Jones, Michael Cousin, Richard Higlett, Tim Davies.
Paperback; pp 84; languages: Czech, English; ISBN 978-80-7027-141-4
RRP: £14.95
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Tale
New g39 publication in association with UWN
Tale is a collection of works evaluating the breadth of work produced by Sear since 1992, and holds the key to Sear's exhibition at g39. It highlights the occurrence of narrative throughout her work as well as the necessary frictions and connections between adjacent images. Previously her work has been viewed in chapters, one coherent body of research following another in carefully balanced exhibitions; with this exhibition and the accompanying publication and essay we can begin to see the connections and links that make Sear’s work an enthralling experience.
Tale also includes an accompanying narrative text written by David Chandler, director of Photoworks in Brighton. It was produced in association with University of Wales, Newport.
Artist’s bookwork 116pp (32 colour images, 17 B&W images); 133x172mm; ISBN 978-0-9541810-7-9
RRP: £10
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Hand Made Machines: Paul Granjon
In December 2007 Paul Granjon completed a 3-year NESTA Fellowship with the publication of this book / DVD that presents a comprehensive selection of work developed since 1996. The publication is framed by two short essays by Anthony Howell and Paul Granjon. The accompanying DVD contains one hour of video including several short films, documentation footage of installations and performances as well as rare archive material.
More details can be found at www.zprod.org
Hardback, 44pp full colour, English. ISBN: 0-9541810-5-0
RRP: £10.00
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Show One Of Each 1
g39 solo season 2006-07
Show One Of Each raises the profile of some of the artists g39 considers to be the most innovative and relevant in Wales.
Featuring: Barrie J Davies, Richard Robinson and Robert Bermingham, Sara Fletcher. Newly commissioned texts by Karen Ingham, Gordon Dalton and Julie Maldoom. Introduction by Anthony Shapland.
Designed by Sweet www.sweetcreative.co.uk
Paperback, 64pp full colour, 172x133mm, Welsh + English. ISBN: 0-9531810-2-6
RRP: £4.95
Anima
Wales-Québec exchange
Anima was a major two-part exhibition featuring artists from Wales and Québec, and was co-curated by g39 and B-312 in Montréal. Features over 140 installation views of both stages of the exhibition at each venue, as well as previous works by the twelve featured artists. The catalogue also contains essays by the curators Anthony Shapland and Marthe Carrier (director of B-312), and artists' profiles: Manon De Pauw, Manuela Lalic, Rachel Thorlby, Michel Boulanger, Philippa Lawrence, Michael Cousin, Paméla Landry, Bedwyr Wiliams, Richard Higlett, Sara Rees, Adad Hannah and Renée Lavaillante.
Paperback, 172x133mm, 128pp, full colour, French + Welsh + English, ISBN 0-9541810-4-2
RRP: £6.95
On Leaving And Arriving
On Leaving and Arriving took place not only in g39 but also in the streets of Cardiff City centre, where a number of shipping containers displayed work by international contemporary artists.The exhibition's theme drew on the historical role of Cardiff as a port city where trading and global influences shaped its social dynamics, its infrastructure and its physical and cultural make-up.
Featuring: Stephen Brandes (Ireland), Shilpa Gupta (India), Joao Onofre (Portugal), Carwyn Evans (Wales), Rabab Ghazoul (Iraq), Heidi Morstang (Norway), Marcos Chaves (Brazil), Richard Powell (England), Tiago Carniero da Cunha (Brazil)
Paperback, 118pp, English + Urdu + Welsh + Irish + Portuguese + Norwegian, ISBN 0-9541810-1-8
RRP: £6.50
Picsel+ CD Rom
RRP: £5.00
Via
Curated by Stefhan Caddick, Via presents the digital work of twelve artists. This exhibition is a journey into the concept of mapping, how we locate ourselves, and the very notion of making a journey from a beginning to an end point. The work allows the viewer to make a side step and tackle the idea of mapping from different perspectives, mapping memory, space, sound and of course virtual spaces.
