FOREVER MOVING - Showing now at Outpost Norwich!

Outpost invited Working Class Creatives Database to collaborate on their members’ show. Because both of our organisations are membership-based, we thought it would be exciting to do a dual members’ show, bringing together artists from both of our communities.

When selecting the works, we kept coming back to themes of displacement, movement, and rebuilding. That felt important because when we first met, we were talking a lot about structures - not just physical ones, but also how we run as organisations. Neither of us have big, secure funding. We work project by project, and we both rely on our members to keep things alive.

At the same time, both of us were experiencing real changes to our spaces. For us, our studios in Woolwich - our main residency space and offices - were being demolished, because it was only ever a meanwhile site. And Outpost had just lost their large studio complex too. So this show arrives at a moment of real transition, where many of us as artists are asking: what do we carry with us, and what do we leave behind?

That idea of being in a constant state of movement - whether that’s moving studios, moving homes, or shifting between projects is at the heart of this exhibition. The works explore those questions in different ways: what it means to be in-between, to rebuild, to adapt.

The installation itself responds to Outpost’s space. Since the walls are plastered but can’t be drilled into, we decided to build a stud wall that runs like a figure of eight, creating pathways for visitors to walk through—mirroring the sense of movement in the works. The floor is painted a deep brick-red, resonating with many of the artworks but also with the materiality of bricks themselves. And we chose to leave the storage cupboard doors open, so that the building itself becomes part of the group show.

The exhibition features a wide range of practices from photography to sculpture, painting to installation by talented artists from both memberships:

Chloe Louise Lawrence, Chris Thompson, David Severn, Devika Pararasasinghe, Gary Diggines, Izzy Osborn, Jessie Blindell, Maya Rose Edwards, Philip Rhys Olney, Reece Jones, Sid White Jones, Tyler Eash, and Will Peck.

Alongside the show, we are also creating a publication reflecting on these themes of movement and displacement, and we’ve hosted an archiving workshop and a panel discussion to expand the conversation.

The show is open until the end of August.

Norwich is just a short train ride from London, and this is a really unique collaboration that we’ve loved working on with the Outpost team. We’d love for you to visit, experience the works, and share in this moment of movement with us!