Old Land New Waters is a new publication that celebrates two years of activity by the first cohort of artists participating in the Freelands Artist Programme. Launched in 2018, the Freelands Artist Programme aims to champion emerging talent and support relationships and collaborations between artists and arts organisations across the country. The programme provides opportunities for artists and institutions alike to step aside from previous working patterns and create alternative structures to the more frequently pressured cycle of artistic production. This edited volume brings together written and visual contributions from the artists on the programme, alongside new critical texts on their practice. Writing was also commissioned from poets and authors Andrew McMillan, Natalie Ann Holborow, Adrien Hester and Jan Carson to sit alongside reflections on the programme to date by the four partner organisations: g39, Cardiff; PS2, Belfast; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Old Land New Waters follows each artist’s journey through two years of artistic practice, observing ideas unfolding or making tentative explorations with new mediums and processes. This richly illustrated book also includes material from the Freelands Artist Programme Symposium 2019 with an incisive essay about ‘productive refusals’ by Helena Reckitt, a conversation between artists Grace Ndiritu and George Clark, and a Q&A with Kunsthalle Lissabon. Artists in the publication include Kelly Best, Ian Watson, Jennifer Taylor, Fern Thomas, Neasa Terry, Emily McFarland, Janie Doherty, Julie Lovett, Jan McCullough, Michael Hanna, Siân Williams, Zoyander Street, Yuen Fong Ling, Lucy Vann, Alison J Carr, Aideen Doran, Rosie O’Grady, Tako Taal, Stephanie Mann.