Showing Up
group exhibition
W/ Freehold Projects
Serf, 2020​

Photo credit: Sam Hutchinson

Taking up the offer of an exhibition at serf, another artist-led space, provided an opportunity to consider how and why Freehold Projects worked together as an organising group. By channeling energy into a new activity, namely a football match, the work explored the potentials of a ‘group show’ as well as how Freehold Projects created it’s sense of identity.

This process may also be used to consider self-organisation more widely. As both an exercise in collaboration and procrastination, Showing Up, weighs up the benefits of playing team sports against those of running a public space. Whilst one may feel productive and provides a sense of gratification, the other can be seen as a happy distraction that requires merely showing up. Although unclear which is which, Showing Up provides this space on which to reflect.

Showing Up was a collaborative exhibition project presented by members of Freehold Projects: Jenny Handley, Henry Cottam, Sophie Bullen, Samuel Lanchin, Toby Kilby-Pollard, Jack Pell, Wes Foster, Sunny Vowles, Lewis Blanch and Oliver Getley.