g39 is an artist-run gallery and creative community for the visual arts in Wales, a bridge between artists and audiences. At the heart of g39’s activities is its relationship with artists. From exhibition to work placements to informal gatherings, initiating peer introductions or realising the most ambitious of solo exhibitions – across this spectrum of relationships our aim is to encourage and enable every person whose ambition it is to pursue a visual art practice.
No
Time
To Plan
an Ending
16 October 2021
Becca + Clare, Freya Dooley, Rebecca Gould,
Rhiannon Lowe, Will Roberts, Neasa Terry
Distance and closeness. An arm's reach apart. At least. A breath apart. Minimum. People come together and people move apart. Bumper cars with a no-bumping rule. This show brings together a collection of people. A collision of people.
The second group from the g39 Fellowship programme - Becca+Clare, Freya Dooley, Rebecca Gould, Rhiannon Lowe, Will Roberts, Neasa Terry - present a collection of new projects, ideas and proposals for works. Some of them have been intermittently based at g39 during the last year as we have navigated different circumstances together. The show is a mixture of live work, work completed over the last two years and projects that were paused through these extraordinary times.
Days passed and the disconnected weeks seemed to repeat. Things that happened last year feel simultaneously close to us and distant. Long term and short term memories feel compressed, crashing together in the face of uncertainty. Planning for anything felt futile as those plans got re-drafted and re-written again and again. We seem to have no time as well as an excess of it, but no structures to hold it. Zoom crashes the distances between us, the gaps between things. Idling. It runs out and around us. Things take longer and any sense of routine is still fluid.
The show is not, thankfully, about these extraordinary times. It is framed by them, changed by them but not separate or apart. Some of the artists have spent time working from home. Homes that become strange villages where different activities have to co-exist with life and work and change.
More info >>
The 2021 Film London
Jarman Award Touring Programme
11 November 2021
Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, Jasmina Cibic, Adham Faramawy, Guy Oliver, Georgina Starr.
Discover the incredible diversity within the world of artists’ filmmaking in the UK, with a presentation of the work of the shortlist of this year’s Film London Jarman Award, which comes with a £10,000 prize. From the individual and autobiographical to the global and political, these films draw us into their narratives through poetry, experimental sound, surreal computer graphics, performance, dance and choreography.
Eventbrite Tickets//Tocynnau
The artists shortlisted this year are: Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, Jasmina Cibic, Adham Faramawy, Guy Oliver and Georgina Starr. The programme will also feature a Q and A with one of the shortlisted artists Adham Faramawy.
Talk // Sgwrs:
Adham Faramawy
11 November 2021
We are really pleased to welcome Adham Faramawy for a talk following the Jarman screenings. Join us for a relaxed look at their work and hear more about the Jarman shortlisted film the air is subtle, various and sweet (2021)
Adham works across a wide variety of media from computer programmes, moving image and apps to print. Their performance for camera videos are often installed as part of sculptural assemblages.
Mixing found footage with footage of two dancers shot on the Wanstead Flats nature reserve in east London, I’ve been thinking about the relationship I, as a person of colour, have with ideas of ‘the land’, plant taxonomy (whether a body is understood as native, whether this means it’s desirable), ideas of roots/heritage.
More info >>
sign up to be kept up to date by post or email. g39 is a charity and we rely on a lot of different helping hands. If you want to support us, please donate, or you can invest in our future by visiting the market. We are always grateful for volunteer support too.
If you want to engage with us in welsh you can switch to Cymraeg from any page by clicking on the link above. If you're a learner, flipping between the two is a good way to practice! Contact us in either welsh or English if you come across glitches while we're still fixing things.
warp Library
When we're open again (!) the warp Library is open, a de-instututional resource for all. The collection mainly houses artist books, arts-related reference books, zines and pamphlets. These span from the socio-political to the experimental, from 60s avant-garde retrospectives to contemporary exhibition publications; and hopefully everything in between. This in an ever-developing, growing collection.
