“Betwixt 2024 places value on the different ways of working as an artist and discovers what it is that unites us. It is here that we reflect on contemporary art in motion. Toing and froing from page to place to person to practice.”
- Wingshan Smith, Introduction: Becoming Together in Betwixt 2024

Betwixt 2024 reflects upon two years of activity from the fourth and final cohort of artists participating in the Freelands Artist Programme (2022-24).

Launched in 2018, Freelands Artist Programme is a landmark initiative to support emerging artists across the UK. Its aim is to nurture emerging artists’ practices by fostering long-term relationships and collaborations with arts organisations, helping to bolster regional arts ecosystems. Four organisations across the UK – g39, Cardiff; PS2, Belfast; Site Gallery, Sheffield; and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh – care for five artists each, working with them for two years.

Published alongside a London exhibition in four parts, Betwixt 2024 brings together the practices of 20 artists, with a breadth of ideas and approaches. Each artist was invited to put forward an author to write about their distinctive practices with each pairing producing a piece of text found in the book.

Designed for interaction, Betwixt features a unique visual language with playful stickers allowing readers to engage with artworks, questions and prompts scattered throughout invite readers to pause, reflect, and respond and a commissioned toolkit by Lara Eggleton shares an activity on articulating creative practice. Finally, informed by workshopped conversations, illustrations by Sarah Taylor-Silverwood capture the experiences and advice of those working across our partner organisations.

Betwixt 2024 invites readers to navigate between pages, places, people, and practices to celebrate the fluidity of artistic journeys, where spaces in between are as significant as the destinations.

Artists in the publication are Adebola Oyekanmi, Adele Vye, Alaya Ang, Beau W. Beakhouse, Christopher Steenson, Crystal Bennes, Dorothy Hunter, Gail Howard, Jacqueline Holt, Kedisha Coakley, Kirsty Russell, Maria de Lima, Phoebe Davies, Rian Treanor, Sadia Pineda Hameed, Susan Hughes, Tara McGinn, Theresa Bruno, Thulani Rachia,Tyler Mellins and Zara Mader.

Writers in this publication are Alice Bucknell, Beth Hughes, Candice Jacobs, Cindy Sissokho, Colette Griffin, Ingrid Lyons, Jamie Sutcliffe, Jenny Richards, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Lara Eggleton, Lucy A. Sames, Maria Howard, Mariana Cánepa Luna, Mark Peter Wright, Max Andrews, Precious Adesina, Rosalie Doubal, Sunshine Wong, Susannah Dickey, Theo Reeves-Evison and Zakiya McKenzie.

Published in 2024, 370 pages, designed by Kristin Metho