#174 Forever Moving

Members’ Show 2025: Curated by Working Class Creatives

2-31 Aug 2025 12-6pm Thu-Sun or by appointment

The opportunity to curate OUTPOST’s 2025 Members’ Show has arrived during a moment of structural and emotional rupture for OUTPOST, for us, and for many artist-led spaces. The loss of OUTPOST's physical studio mirrors what's happening with our own space at WCCD at SET Woolwich. Instead of treating these as isolated closures, we're looking at them as part of a wider moment of breaking down in order to collectively rebuild -physically, digitally, emotionally.

In this collective spirit, the works in this show are those of OUTPOST members, WCCD members, and some who are members of both.

We're thinking about the show not just as an exhibition, but as a holding space for all of this: the grief of loss and demolition, the residue of creative activity and how it gets remembered, the precariousness and constant flux that shape how artists live, work and organise.

We have selected works that speak to impermanence, precarity and transformation. Works that echo the tension between holding on and letting go. There's a thread running through everything we've looked at so far: how artists find ways to survive creatively in unstable environments, and how the traces of those efforts get archived, shared, or lost.

Seren Metcalfe, Working Class Creatives

List of works:

1 Maya Rose Edwards Falsework

2 Sid White JonesGlass Vase, Roses

3 David SevernWorkers’ Playtime

4 Chloe Louise Lawrence holding onto all four floors of Biddulph House

5 Reece Jones walking = falling, intrusive thoughts

6 Devika PararasasingheMy thinking hangs out in the burrows, Yours is just a face, red-flushed

7 Philip Rhys OlneyMy grandad’s shed (1952-2025)

8 Will Peck Heatgram

9Garry Digginesuntitled

10 Tyler Eash Field /Koyóm

11 Izzy OsbornThe Gaia Altarpiece

12 Chris Thompson Kitbash Container 027

13 Jessie Blindell Communication Structure (make-shift)

Image by Gillies Adamson Semple