Freya playfully constructs camp, queer and energetic worlds through textiles and sculpture. Joy emanates from their work, fostering a connection with the viewer through tender, silly and sensual tactility. Their work subverts conventional notions of textiles using techniques like tufting + banner making to craft queer utopias filled with fantastical and grotesque figures that offer a playful yet critical commentary on the world. Freya's work explores the socio-politics of textile art, examining the role of banner making in political activism and its influence from a queer perspective to expand and redefine the narratives associated with this field.
Freya is also involved in the artist collective
TV Babies
alongside Jenny Hanns and Charlotte Simmons. Together, they create films, participatory installations and sculptures which employ tongue-in-cheek humour to critique the social and political issues we face. Through the disruption of public space and bringing art outside of commercial galleries, TV Babies aim to divert from their profit-oriented nature and invite a more collaborative and community-focused approach.
Freya is currently based at Paradise Works, Salford.
EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS
Queer World Building, Seesaw 2024
Process Jam, Merseyway Workshop 2024
Looking at Art Fair People Looking at Art, Manchester Contemporary 2024
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Paradise Works 2024
Friends of Dorothy X The Refuge, The Kimpton Hotel 2024
HOME Open Exhibition Castlefield Development Award Nominee, HOME Manchester 2024
NSFW, Smolensky Gallery 2023
l0ve live at The Terminal, nil00 (set design) 2024
Textile Junction, Electro Studios Project Space 2023
WERK RESIDENCY, Almeria, Spain 2023
I Extend My Arms, Tate Collective for LGBTQIA+ history month
Belonging with Underbank Studios @ HOME, Manchester and Stockport Art Gallery 2022/3
M+1 @PS Mirabel, Manchester 2022
Combine With Me @ Cass Art for A Modest Show, Manchester 2022
Food of the Gods for A Modest Show @ DezRez Projects, Manchester 2022
Hag @ Dez Rez Projects, Manchester 2022
Group Show @ Next Door Gallery, Manchester 2022
Bad Art presents Let Them Eat Fake @ The Bomb Factory, London 2022
Witchcraft @ Underbank Studios, Stockport 2021
Unlocked @ PS Mirabel, Manchester 2021
Cotton on presents ‘In Manchester’ @ Saul Haye Gallery, Manchester 2021
All Good Things Interactive Arts Final Show @ The Vertical Gallery (TV Babies) 2020
Millenialism @ Paradise Works for Manchester Contemporary (TV Babies) 2019
Union, School for crealtivity and Activism, 2019
Encore Sauna @ Islington Mill (TV Babies) 2018
Manchester School of Art Degree Show 2018 and winner of The Alumni Prize (TV Babies)
TV Babies present SWEAT @ Castlefield New Art Space 2018
