ISLAND
preview 3 July 2015
Island is an evolving programme of exhibitions, commissions, film, food, performance, music and community led events. Island Adaptations I & II explore the disparate notions of isolation and community, structured as two distinct exhibitions:
Adaptation I: Insula featuring Freddy Dewe Matthews and Dr Helen Sharp
Adaptation II: WE featuring Paul Chaney, Alasdair Duncan, Tim Etchells, Huw Greenwood, Ellie Harrison, Kenna Hernly, Ryan Mc Clelland, Mark Titchner and Suzanne Treister.
Collaborations with:
Annexinema, BEEF, Outland Arts, Made in Roath, Landfill Editions and Island Encyclopedia by Nicholas Johnson
Island takes an encyclopedic and open approach, working with a network of contemporary artists and organizations to facilitate a lively programme of events. To keep updated please see www.g39island.org
Events Programme
Friday 03 July 6–9pm Preview and live performance by Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur)
Saturday 25 July 12–5pm Artist experimental film workshop & organic processing facilitated by BEEF (Bristol). Booking essential
Saturday 25 July 6–9pm Annexinema curate an evening of artist films
Saturday 29 August Self Publishing & Artist Book fair
Saturday 12 September Evening of live art
- The following Artists were in this show:
- Helen Sharp
- Alasdair Duncan
- Ellie Harrison
- Ryan McClelland
- Huw Greenwood
- Paul Chaney
- Freddie Dewe Mathews
- Suzanne Treister
- Tim Etchells
- Mark Titchner
Programme
- 2025
- 2024
- Corrina Eastwood
The Baby And The Snake 3 - 3 May - Gypsy Makers 10 April - 25 May
Daniel Baker, Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, Artur Conka, Corrina Eastwood, Cas Holmes, Billy Kerry, Shamus McPhee & Dan Turner - Cinema Programme: Betwixt 16 - 16 March
- Gallery 2 // Galeri 2:
We Ran Together 10 February - 23 March
Durre Shahwar - Michal Iwanowski - George H. Wale - Exhibition:
Here, at the edge, today. 27 January - 23 March
Zara Mader, Gail Howard, Adele Vye, Sadia Pineda Hameed & Beau W Beakhouse & Phoebe Davies. - Gallery Intern - g39 10 January - 13 February
- Corrina Eastwood
- 2023
- Talk // Sgwrs: Beatriz Lobo 14 - 14 December
Free // Am ddim. 14/12/23, 18.00-20.00 The talk will start at 18.30 // Bydd y Sgwrs yn dechrau am 18.30 - Talk // Sgwrs:
Emma Hart 29 - 29 November - Cinema // Sinema: Jarman Film London 2023 screening 10 - 10 November
Ayo Akingbade - Andrew Black - Julianknxx -
Sophie Koko Gate - Karen Russo - Rehana Zaman - Talk // Sgwrs:
Andrew Black 10 - 10 November - Gallery // Galeri:
We Ran Together - Richard Billingham 27 October - 16 December - Cinema: Fake Your Death,
Take a Seat 16 - 16 September
Mae g39 yn falch o groesawu Fake Your Death, Take a Seat - y trydydd mewn cyfres o ddangosiadau ffilm wleidyddol rhad ac am ddim sy`n cael eu cynnal ledled Caerdydd. // g39 is proud to host Fake Your Death, Take a Seat - the third in a series of free political film screenings taking place across Cardiff. Picking up the baton from @dyddiaudu - Publication Launch:
No Time to Plan an Ending 7 - 7 September
Publication Launch - 1-2-1 sessions 31 August - 2 September
- Shelter Auction 30 August - 2 September
- Cinema - Jitterbug by Ayo Akingbade 18 - 18 August
Ayo Akingbade’s Jitterbug marks the rising London filmmaker`s thirteenth short film and continues her exploration into the city’s rapidly changing landscape. // Mae Jitterbug gan Ayo Akingbade yn nodi trydedd ffilm fer ar ddeg y gwneuthurwr ffilmiau addawol o Lundain, ac mae’n parhau â’i harchwiliad i dirwedd y ddinas sy’n prysur newid. - Talk: Priyesh Mistry 27 - 27 July
- Open table 23 July - 25 August
- Derek Jarman - Blue 15 - 15 July
Screening // Sgrinio - madeinroath Open Exhibition 2023 14 July - 12 August
- (Team) Work in Practice: Jerwood Toolkit Workshop 7 - 7 July
- Performance: SCORE 1 - 1 July
- Intervention: Teddy Hunter and Imogen Marooney 1 - 1 July
Live performance // Perfformiad yn fyw - On Your Face Collective Queer Short Films 30 - 30 June
- Cinema:
Mauve, Jim and John
Paul Maheke 30 - 30 June
Mauve, Jim and John is part of The Artangel Collection. // Mae ‘Mauve, Jim and John’ yn rhan o The Artangel Collection. - Workshop: SSAP at Refugee Week 2023 24 - 24 June
Donations on the door. - Library Residency: Joshua Jones 16 June - 16 July
- COMMONPLACE 16 June - 3 September
g39 Summer Season - In The Same Breath 20 - 20 May
All day sgreening - sinema drwy`r dydd - Burning Things 19 - 19 May
All day sgreening - sinema drwy`r dydd - Soft split the Stone 8 April - 20 May
Philippa Brown, Aled Simons, Tom Cardew, Alice Briggs, Rebecca Jagoe - Pave Your Path:
Open Call // Galwad Agored 20 - 31 January
Career-focused Workshops for Moving Image Artists
g39 is pleased to be collaborating with Film London and Videotage, Hong Kong, to invite six Welsh or Wales based early career artists to apply to the Pave Your Path programme. The programme will support moving image artists who are working to build their careers in the art sector. - One-to-One sessions for artists:
Paddy Gould + Roxy Topia 13 - 14 January
Start the year off with some valuable creative conversations. We’ve got Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould visiting Cardiff to do 1-2-1s at g39. // Dechreuwch y flwyddyn gyda rhai sgyrsiau creadigol gwerthfawr. Mae Roxy Topia a Paddy Gould yn ymweld â Chaerdydd i wneud sesiynau un-i-un yn g39.
- Talk // Sgwrs: Beatriz Lobo 14 - 14 December
- 2022
- Workshop:
Situated Psychogeography - Delphi Campbell 3 - 3 December
14.00-16.00 - Workshop:
Zine-making with Delphi Campbell 26 - 26 November
14.00 - 16.00 - Gallery:
Aildanio 19 November - 17 December
Farah Allibhai, Lia Bean, Leila Bebb, Candice Black, Arty Jen-Jo, Deborah Dalton, Paddy Faulkner, Clarrie Flavell, Rebecca F Hardy, Emily-Jane Hillman, Jacqueline Janine Jones, Cerys Knighton, Ruben Lorca, Jo Munton, Roz Moreton, Ceridwen Powell, Gaia Redgrave, Tina Rogers, Menai Rowlands, Jordan Sallis, Booker Skelding, Bethany & Linda Sutton, Alana Tyson, Phillippa Walter, Sara Louise Wheeler, Julia Wilson. - Talk//Sgwrs:
Fran Flaherty & Ruth Fabby 19 - 19 November
10.30-12.00 Breakfast Club/Gallery Talk with exhibition selectors // Clwb Brecwast/Sgwrs Oriel gyda detholwyr arddangosfeydd - Talk//Sgwrs: Jay Bedwani 28 - 28 October
- Talk // Sgwrs: Grace Ndiritu 26 - 26 October
Talk // Sgwrs (IRL and Zoom, blended event) 26/10/22, 18.00-19.30 - Talk // Sgwrs - Gypsy Maker 5 24 - 24 October
Imogen Bright Moon, Corrina Eastwood & Dr Daniel Baker - Cinema:
The 2022 Jarman Award // Gwobr Jarman 2022 21 - 21 October
Jamie Crewe - Onyeka Igwe - Grace Ndiritu - Morgan Quaintance - Rosa-Johan Uddoh - Alberta Whittle - Cinema:
Selected 12 20 - 20 October
Sarah Gonnet - Sophie Hoyle - Jessy Jetpacks - Seo Hye Lee - April Lin 林森 - Laura Lulika - Jennifer Mehigan - Ker Wallwork. - Talk//Sgwrs: Machynys Forgets Itself - Tom Cardew 21 - 21 September
- Gallery:
Kathryn Ashill - Principal Boy 17 September - 29 October
Kath Ashill Ft. Len Blanco & Megan Winstone - Heavy Water Collective
- residency 4 - 10 July
Victoria Lucas, Joanna Whittle & Maud Haya-Baviera - tibrO yalP 1 July - 20 August
- g39 Fellowship FOUR 1 April - 31 March
Zara Mader, Phoebe Davies
Gail Howard, Adele Vye
Sadia Pineda Hameed & Beau Beakhouse. - UNITe22 9 March - 14 May
George Hampton Wale, Adam Moore, Zillah Bowes,
Gwenllian Davenport & Umulkhayr Mohamed - Dolly Sen - Broken Hearts for the DWP 3 - 3 March
A screening and Q&A with //
Sgriniad a sesiwn holi ac ateb gyda:
Dolly Sen & Caroline Cardus - madeinroath
Open Exhibition 2022 2 - 5 March
MiR warmly invites you to submit work for this year’s Open Exhibition, which, after a two year hiatus, we are delighted to announce will be at g39 in March 2022. Mae MiR yn eich gwahodd i gyflwyno gwaith ar gyfer yr Arddangosfa Agored ym mis Mawrth 2022, ac yn dilyn seibiant o ddwy flynedd rydym yn hynod falch o gyhoeddi mai g39 bydd y lleoliad eleni.
- Workshop:
- 2021
- Cekca Het:
Trans Panic:
Rhiannon Lowe:
Burn It Down
10 - 10 December
18.30 - 20.00 drop in. - Freya Dooley
Temporary Commons 3 - 3 December
11.00-17.00. Screenings on the hour, Dur. 43 minutes - A Call-Out for Trustees -
g39 needs your help. 3 December - 28 January
g39 needs your help.
Mae angen eich help ar g39 - Talk // Sgwrs:
Adham Faramawy 11 - 11 November - The 2021 Film London
Jarman Award Touring Programme 11 - 11 November
Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, Jasmina Cibic, Adham Faramawy, Guy Oliver, Georgina Starr. - No
Time
To Plan
an Ending
16 October - 18 December
Becca + Clare, Freya Dooley, Rebecca Gould,
Rhiannon Lowe, Will Roberts, Neasa Terry - Workshop:
Nicolaas van de Lande
10/09/21 10 - 10 September
Artist-led Shape-shifting - Artes Mundi Screenings:
Carrie Mae Weems 4 - 4 September
Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, 2008 Dur:20’04’’ & The Baptism, 2020 Dur:11’35’’ - Talk // Sgwrs:
Heather Phillipson
& Holly Davey 20 - 20 August - Artes Mundi Screenings:
Dineo Seshee Bopape 20 - 20 August
Title unknown at time of publication, 2018. Dur. 33’40” - Artes Mundi Screenings:
Meiro Koizumi 17 - 17 August
AntiDream #2 Torch Ritual Edit, 2021 , Dur: 28’00’’ - Talk // Sgwrs:
Rebecca Moss
& Mel Brimfield 12 - 12 August - Intermission: mwnwgl 1 - 1 August
- Florence Boyd -
What’s it worth?
valuing opportunities. 30 - 30 July - Shaun James:
Gallwch Argraffu Sgrin //
You Can Screen Print 30 - 30 July
Shaun James has put together this series of screen printing training videos. // Mae Shaun James wedi rhoi at ei gilydd cyfres o fideos hyfforddi argraffu sgrin. - Artes Mundi Screenings:
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 25 - 25 July
La Cueva Negra, 2012. 20’00” & La cabeza mató a todos, 2014. Dur: 07’30” - Talk // Sgwrs:
Libita Sibungu 24 - 24 July - SURVEY II 3 July - 11 September
Saelia Aparicio, Tereza Červeňová, Sadé Mica, Rebecca Moss, Cinzia Mutigli, Katarzyna Perlak, Shenece Oretha, Tako Taal, Nicolaas van de Lande, Angharad Williams - The Male Graze - Guerrilla Girls 18 June - 18 July
Art Night 2021: Nothing Compares 2 U - Jerwood UNITe 2021 Open Studios 3 - 5 June
Gweni Llwyd - Wendy Short - Gwenda Evans - Beau Beakhouse & Sadia Pineda Hameed - Yewande YoYo Odunubi - Talk // Sgwrs: Katrina Palmer 28 - 28 May
- Simon Fenoulhet - How do I go Public? 14 - 14 May
G39 artist Resources // Adnoddau artist g39 - Gaia Redgrave - Kindness 14 - 14 May
G39 artist Resources // Adnoddau artist g39 - Talk // Sgwrs: Tai Shani 6 - 6 May
We are really pleased to host Tai Shani for an online talk this Summer. Thursday 6th May 2021, between 6-8pm - nonsequences 3 - 27 March
Kelly Best, Jennifer Taylor, Ian Watson, Fern Thomas. - Finding Aarti 12 February - 1 March
Intermission - Radha Patel - g39 Fellowship THREE 1 January - 0 January
Rebecca Jagoe, Aled Simons,
Alice Briggs, Philippa Brown
and Tom Cardew.
- Cekca Het:
- 2020
- Madam Kamboulé
Adéọlá Dewis 18 December - 1 March
Intermission - Adéọlá Dewis - Request Stop 11 December - 1 March
Intermission - Sarah Jenkins - The Value of Housework 27 November - 1 March
Intermission - Nasima Begum - Talk:
Michelle Williams Gamaker 15 - 15 October
19.00-21.00 -
Zoom event via
Eventbrite below - The 2020 Film London Jarman Award 14 - 15 October
Michelle Williams Gamaker, Jenn Nkiru,
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings,
Project Art Works, Larissa Sansour,
Andrea Luka Zimmerman - Talk: Gypsy Maker 4 - Cas Holmes & Dan Turner 30 - 30 September
Online event with Isaac Blake and Daniel Baker 6-8pm //
6-8yp Digwyddiad ar-lein gydag Isaac Blake a Daniel Baker. - Rosalie Schweiker - Artist Talk 21 - 21 June
Hosted by g39 and the artist on Zoom - We are still here // Rydyn ni dal yma 28 March - 28 July
- RAT TRAP x g39 22 February - 29 March
Aled Simons, Carlota Nóbrega, Cybi Williams, Dylan Huw, Elin Meredydd, Ella Jones, Gweni Llwyd, Hugo - Intermission 2020 0 January - 1 March
Adeola Dewis - Aled Simons - Aurora & Nasima Begum
mwnwgl - Rabab Ghazoul - Radha Patel - Sarah Jenkins - Noson Calan Gaeaf
w/ Aled Simons and friends 0 - 0 January
Intermission
- Madam Kamboulé
- 2019
- UNITe 2019 25 October - 21 December
Daniel Clark ~ Mylo Elliott ~ Sophie Lindsey ~ Natasha MacVoy Amber Mottram ~ Manon Parry ~ Radha P - g39 Fellowship TWO 25 September - 25 June
g39 Fellowship – Year Two Artists Announced - Sprung Spring 10 August - 12 October
Tim Bromage - Philippa Brown – Marcos Chaves - Rebbeca Gould - George Manson - Nightshift Internat - Rumblestrip 4 May - 13 July
Emanuel Almborg / Paul Eastwood / Nooshin Farhid James Moore / Paula Morison / Jessica Warboys - Love Hangover 4 May - 13 July
- g39 Fellowship - ONE 1 April - 0 January
- Survey 2 February - 0 January
- UNITe 2019 25 October - 21 December
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- Freya Dooley - Rhythms and Disturbances 22 October - 17 December
UNIT#1 - S Mark Gubb – Revelations: The Poison of Free Thought, Prt II
Mike Kelley – Mobile Homestead 22 October - 17 December - Noëmi Lakmaier - Cherophobia 7 - 9 September
- does that include us? / yn cynnwys ni? part 2 3 - 24 September
Part two SARGY MANN see more > see different > see better - UNIT#1 Carl Slater - Miss America’s Trip to Technoland 23 July - 20 August
- does that include us? / yn cynnwys ni? Part 1 23 July - 20 August
- Just Between Us 28 May - 25 June
Thomas Williams/ g39/ The Trinity Centre - Sticky little touchstones called plans 1 May - 1 June
- UNIT#1 Sam Basu and Kelwin Palmer 15 April - 12 May
The Project of Art: Aldo Rossi - Thomas-Irvine: Limen Locale 15 April - 25 June
- UNIT(e) 2016 13 January - 19 March
- Freya Dooley - Rhythms and Disturbances 22 October - 17 December
- 2015
- 3-Phase Georgie Grace 14 November - 12 December
Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase - ISLAND III - Native 3 October - 12 December
- 3-PHASE Kelly Best 3 - 30 October
- ISLAND 4 July - 12 September
- Unit#1 Simon Fenoulhet: Underground 16 May - 13 June
- Unit#1 Ben Lloyd: The Road To New York 11 April - 2 May
- The Starry Messenger 11 April - 13 June
- UNIT(e) 2015 15 January - 14 March
- 3-Phase Georgie Grace 14 November - 12 December
- 2014
- Unit#1: Siân Melangell Dafydd – Foxy 15 November - 13 December
- Carwyn Evans: UDO 4 October - 13 December
- Unit#1: Inga Burrows - Offset 4 October - 1 November
- Reflections Towards a Well-tempered Environment
Part two:
Ship`s Biscuit 3 October - 9 November
Alex Rich - Cardiff Contemporary 2014 - Reflections Towards a Well-tempered Environment
Part three:
A Flare for a Horn 3 October - 9 November
Alex Rich - Cardiff Contemporary 2014 - Reflections Towards a Well-tempered Environment
Part one:
HIDE 3 October - 9 November
Alex Rich - Cardiff Contemporary 2014 - Cities of Ash 12 July - 13 September
- If This Is Nowhere 12 July - 13 September
Work by Tom Crawford and associated programme - Unit#1 Shaun Featherstone (Frock n Robe) 7 - 24 May
The Red Shoes - Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain 5 April - 21 June
- Unit#1 Megan Broadmeadow 5 April - 3 May
Under The Influence - UNIT(e) 2014 15 January - 15 March
- Unit#1 James Green 0 January - 21 June
- 2013
- Democracy Sandwich 21 - 21 November
- WJEC Foundation Excellence Exhibition and Awards 9 - 14 November
- Lost in Transit 19 October - 0 January
Offsite project at Cathays Library for MadeinRoath 2013 - MadeinRoath2013 17 - 24 October
The annual hyper-local festival - The John Gingell Award 17 August - 28 September
- Barnraising & Bunkers 8 May - 29 June
- There Will Be Words 13 - 28 March
Symposia/ Exhibition/ Projects
- 2012
- Recycled Cinema 10 - 24 November
- Brzeska`s Eagle 13 October - 0 January
- Chekhov`s Gun 29 September - 15 December
- Unit#1 Huw Andrews 10 - 24 August
- Unit#1 David Shepherd 14 - 28 July
- Unit#1: Rachel Calder 15 - 30 June
- The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 6 June - 25 August
- Art Car Bootique 2012 15 - 15 April
Cardiff`s best annual car boot fair event at Chapter Arts Centre
- 2011
- g39`s Great Big Open Day 17 - 17 December
- GOLDEN ROD Adorned Log 28 October - 2 November
- CAMP 21 - 30 October
- Richard Higlett Welcome To Your World 1 - 15 October
- ¿AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra? 22 June - 2 July
The grand finale of the g39 project... - Portmanteau 30 April - 1 May
Offsite project at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany - If.... Alistair Owen 16 March - 2 April
- Show One Of Each: Maia Conran 4 February - 12 March
- If.... Lulu Allison 12 - 29 January
- 2010
- The Last Days of The Empire 4 - 22 December
- On Collecting: Transactions in Contemporary Art 3 - 3 December
Symposium at Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, National Museum Cardiff - Show One Of Each: Pascal-Michel Dubois 22 October - 27 November
I saw my destiny in the corner of my eyes - If.... Richard Cook 29 September - 16 October
- Bystanding 21 August - 25 September
Lauren Elizabeth Jury, Will Woon, Mark Folds - If.... Dawn Woolley 28 July - 14 August
- Unassembed Information: Towards an archive 8 - 24 July
With associated conference at NMW on 8 July 11-4 - If.... Candice Jacobs 7 - 24 July
- Awst & Walther: The Conversation 29 May - 3 July
- If.... Samuel Hasler: Block 4 - 22 May
- Short Cuts 27 March - 1 May
- If.... Heather Phillipson 24 February - 13 March
- If.... Lesley Guy 3 - 20 February
- 2009
- Richard Bevan 12 December - 30 January
Closed 20 December - 5 January - December Eleven 11 - 11 December
- Building Up Not Tearing Down 11 - 19 December
An off-site project at Tactile Bosch, Cardiff - If.... Rabab Ghazoul 18 November - 5 December
- Infernal Machine 10 October - 14 November
- Drawn In, Drawn Out, Drawn Round 1 - 12 October
An offsite exhibition at National Theatre Wales - If.... Hayley Lock 16 September - 3 October
- For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn 8 August - 12 September
- Prop 5 - 22 August
An offsite exhibition at National Theatre Wales - The Golden Record 16 May - 20 June
- Jackie Chettur: 310 28 March - 2 May
- Helen Sear 31 January - 7 March
- Richard Bevan 12 December - 30 January
- 2008
- Simon Holly : The tipyn point 29 November - 17 January
- Rebecca Spooner: The White Stag 4 October - 1 November
- If You Build It They Will Come 9 July - 9 August
- Anna Barratt 17 May - 14 June
- Jennie Savage: A Million Moments 19 April - 5 May
Special arcade screening: Friday 18 April 8.00-9.15pm - Mike Murray: Building Blocks 5 April - 3 May
- Neil McNally: Death is colder than love 16 February - 15 March
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