ABSTRACT
In 2004, Free Form was a highly professional registered charity known as Free Form Arts Trust, which provided employment for approximately seventy arts professionals. In 2005, for instance, the British Council funded Free Form to carry out two projects in Romania. Securing regeneration funds, however, is by no means straightforward; a major element of the expertise the Free Form artists developed over the years was the ability to identify potential opportunities within the mounds of documents generated by the regeneration industry. The architectural firm Ash Sakuler were commissioned to design an arts complex to provide a permanent home for Free Form along with extra studio and workshop space that could be rented out to generate income for the organization. The list of projects presented to Free Form’s 2004 Annual General Meeting gives an indication of the range of the organization’s work by this point.
