Not that I can speak with any authority on the matter, but dying from a cobra bite must really hurt. Just imagine being trapped in a forest without any medical amenities to extract the poison – it’s pretty grim. What’s worse is that these things tend to take their time:thirty minutes, Wikipedia reliably states, before one’s death. Not the nicest of thoughts perhaps, but it struck me while examining a photograph by Ross Fraser Mclean that death, in this instance by a venomous snake, is the final full stop.

Morbidity is an overriding theme in Full Stop, but one that’s artistically underrepresented in the exhibition as a whole. The collection brings an end to eighteen months of the Such and Such gallery and Full Stop is a final retrospective of some of its best contributors. It’s an interesting idea, but sadly Mclean is one of the few who approach it with an engaging message. His snapshot of Indian snake charmers provides a tranquil combination of candid existence and pastel soft landscape, but remains something of an anomaly.

Still, some other pieces do impress. Jessica Harrison’s Sophia strips away the ceramic flesh of a female figurine to reveal her interior being. Undoubtedly it’s more complex than Mclean, but just as arresting. By humanising the porcelain we don’t see an ornament as much as a painful truth subsisting in everyone. It’s pleasing to note that the quality of execution lives up to the drama of the idea.

Stuart McMorris’ untitled print carefully marries geometry and colour to make a thrilling work of art, but like its neighbours it feels wasted in the setting. The impending closure of the gallery forces one to consider the space in which the work inhabits. Sandwiched between a takeaway and a shop, the room is overwhelmingly small. I’m not diametrically opposed to these intimate spaces, nor am I infatuated with their high rent alternatives, but I think in this case a sense of purpose is lost. This space is barely larger than the back of a Transit van, and journalistic hyperbole though it may seem, I’ve probably had more fun in one.