Sowing Creative Fallow was a pilot for our longer term Creating Fallow programme, beginning in 2026. For more information about this new project, please click here.

Sowing Creative Fallow

16 May – 11 June 2025

Sowing Creative Fallow was a pilot exhibition to introduce our exploration of Sabbath rest in a world that demands constant productivity. It was the seed of an idea to think through Sabbath over a longer time. The beginning of thinking deeply about how rest is valued or undervalued in society and how it can make profound transformation.

It was an interactive exhibition considering work, rest and leisure. Can rest be a form of resistance in a productivity-obsessed and consumerist world? Who in society is and isn’t free to rest well?

Packed with creative activities, visitors were invited to contribute to the show by adding their stories, drawings, questions, and challenges. They read about rest and resistance in our library corner; contributed to (and maybe let go of) an endless ‘To Do’ list; spent time popping bubble wrap on our rest hillock and visited SAW’s beautiful garden as a pilgrimage of rest.