There’s a light irony to the title of this exhibition, No Time To Plan an Ending, intentionally so you’d imagine as the artists involved in it have been afforded more planning time than ideal over the last two years. Becca+Clare, Freya Dooley, Rebecca Gould, Rhiannon Lowe, Will Roberts and Neasa Terry are seven of 20 artists accepted onto Cardiff gallery G39’s Fellowship programme, which aims to support Welsh creatives via workshops, training, mentoring and so forth.
The process has been rather wonkier than was expected at the outset, with the gallery’s space only sometimes being accessible, but what’s emerged, in a broad stylistic variety, is an unspecific jumble, in a good way. It’s germane to Becca+Clare’s arch, community-minded conceptualism, for example, likewise painter Roberts’ fixation on people’s living spaces and how we personalise them. Cardiff-based Lowe’s highly personal work, relating to her trans identity, is reliably worthwhile, and the mixed media of Dooley and Gould’s contributions sound like they’ll offer ample food for thought.
G39, Cardiff, until Sat 18 Dec. Admission: free. Info: here
words NOEL GARDNER
