Rebuild the Poets

Launch 3 October 2025

18.00-21.00

4 October - 13 December 2025

An exhibition and programme of activities, re-performances, re-introductions and replicas of artists work spanning several generations. The show gets its title from a placard that appeared on fencing after a local pub, The Poets Corner, that stood near Shelley Walk and Shakespeare Street, was demolished in 2016 to make way for redevelopment.

Over the last decade g39 has been testing assumptions of how we view development and success. Rebuild the Poets reflects our idea that progress is not a straight line between the past and now, but more of a scribble, unpredictable and connecting at multiple points.

A consumer ideal that fetishises newness over content often means that things that should be noticed slip by. Without nostalgia, we hope to bring some of these works to light – to slow down production and revisit important artists at significant moments in their practice.

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