
Freelands Foundation, London
Freelands Foundation is a dynamic arts organisation based in North London that operates its own gallery space, runs an educational programme and supports and funds artists, organisations and creative projects throughout the UK. The Foundation works closely with partners, including Tate Modern and the Institute of Education at University College London, and seeks to empower individuals and organisations across all levels of the art scene.
EXHIBITIONS AT FREELANDS FOUNDATION
Aggregate 2022
10 March – 29 May 2022
Aggregate 2022 brings together the work of 21 artists working across the UK in the Freelands Artist Programme, including artists based in Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Sheffield. Sculpture, sound works, textiles, print, written word, film and installation, painting and site-specific interventions are installed throughout Freelands Foundation’s London building, offering an insight into new approaches to making and the most urgent topics being considered by artists today.
Triangle
Will Kendrick, Catherine Parsonage, Jess Power
13 January – 20 February 2022
The latest exhibition at Freelands Foundation presents recent work by the three artists on the inaugural Freelands Painting Fellowships. Will Kendrick, Catherine Parsonage and Jess Power all embarked on full-time fellowships in January 2021, at Bath School of Art, Film and Media, the University of Brighton and Manchester School of Art respectively.
Freelands Painting Prize 2021
7 October – 21 November 2021
The 2021 Freelands Painting Prize presents an exhibition of ten winning works by artists studying across the UK. Many of the paintings are smaller in scale than those submitted in the previous year, a response to the domestic spaces the students found themselves in during national lockdowns. The students found new spaces to paint, both literally and metaphorically, and developed new and inspiring ways of making their work.
The featured artists are: Sophie Baskerville, Tom Hall Boehringer, Eleanor Daly, Richard Dražan, Rebecca Foster-Clarke, Mabelle Furlong, Freddie Ingoldby, Augusta Lardy, Nicola McManus, and Sunim Rai.
make 12 August – 19 September 2021
make is the result of a two-week residency programme hosted at Freelands Foundation’s project space. Ten artist teachers were invited to explore processes and ideas about making, creating the opportunity to work in an expansive way, unpicking and challenging preconceptions about artistic practice. Together, the group tried out different ways of working, collaborating and thinking.
Much of what resulted from make and is presented in the project space is unfinished, unresolved, in progress, accidental and peripheral. The exhibition is an attempt to capture its energy, to glimpse behind the curtain into the spaces of making.
Artist Teachers: Rosemary Cronin, Kathryn Devine, Lisa-Marie Dickinson, Lily Hudson, Anya Mustoo, Paul Raymond, Keda Richens, Michael Sacco, Molly Skinner, Fan Yeung.
Undertow 17 June – 4 July 2021
The second of two exhibitions of works by the first cohort of artists in the Freelands Artist Programme, Undertow explores ideas of citizenship, as well as the capacity for historical events to give shape to and exclude the lives of people. The exhibiting artists use research-based approaches to make works that question established historical narratives, and shine a light on those who may have been previously overlooked or disregarded.
Artists: Alison J Carr, Janie Doherty, Aideen Doran, Yuen Fong Ling, Emily McFarland, Zoyander Street, Fern Thomas, and Ian Watson.
Quicksilver 12 March – 31 May 2021
The first of two exhibitions of works by the first cohort of artists in the Freelands Artist Programme.
Quicksilver is part of a season celebrating the work of the first cohort of artists on the Freelands Artist Programme. Launched in 2018, the Freelands Artist Programme is a five-year partnership with four UK-wide organisations who work with annual cohorts of locally based artists to champion emerging talent and support collaborations between artists and arts organisations across the country.
Artists: Kelly Best, Michael Hanna, Julie Lovett, Stephanie Mann, Jan McCullough, Rosie O’Grady, Jennifer Taylor, Lucy Vann and Siân Williams
Freelands Painting Prize: 1 October – 20 December 2020
The inaugural Freelands Painting Prize exhibition features works by students graduating in 2020 from Fine Art courses at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee; University of Brighton; Lancaster University; Plymouth College of Art; Manchester Metropolitan University; University for the Creative Arts Canterbury; Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; and City & Guilds of London Art School. The eight paintings, one from each artist, were selected from an open call that invited every higher education art departments in the UK to propose a student working with painting for consideration. The featured artists are: Lewis Deeney, Charlotte Guérard, Michael Hanrahan, Georgina Harris, Fischer Mustin, Stuart Rayner, Jack Whitelock, and Anna Woodward.
There, where we promenade | January - March 2020
A group exhibition that brings together work by four artists - Etel Adnan, Susan Aldworth, Rachel Kneebone and Leonor Serrano Rivas - exploring unconscious dream states and considering how the body operates within the boundaries between the conscious and subconscious. Curated by Catriona Whiteford.
ABOUT FREELANDS FOUNDATION
The Freelands Foundation’s mission is to support artists and cultural institutions, to broaden audiences for the visual arts and to enable all young people to engage actively with the creation and enjoyment of art. Our goal is to tackle the critical issues that are limiting our society’s access to the benefits of art and culture; from the inequality of access to art education in schools, to the lack of sufficient support for female and emerging artists.
We aim to provoke meaningful, positive change within the visual arts sector via strategic, high-impact programmes, partnerships and activities. These include a varied portfolio of awards that enable existing visual arts organisations to promote new or under-represented talent and develop pioneering creative projects with artists. Our gallery holds regular exhibitions curated by the Foundation; we also undertake research, develop partnership projects with organisations such as Tate Modern and the Institute of Education at University College London, and hold regular events and talks at our gallery space.
In all of our activities we strive to empower not just individual organisations and artists but the broader arts ecosystem – from those supporting children in education to those working to promote artists and their practice – enabling this ecosystem to continue to deliver a positive societal and economic impact to the UK.
Freelands Foundation | 113 Regent’s Park Rd, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8UR | www.freelandsfoundation.co.uk