Freya Wysocki works across textiles, sculpture, and installation, with a visual arts practice that uses humour and absurdity to encourage the use of art as a tool for social change. Wysocki is influenced by cartoons, folklore and the mundane. With an off-kilter sense of urgency, they use materials such as drawing, papier mache and rug making to build worlds that radiate joy through an uncanny and playfully queer lens.
Working with their chosen materials Wysocki collaborates with community groups, protest campaigns, artists and galleries to facilitate banner-making and sculptural workshops that encourage people to use their imagination as a political space, connect with materiality, learn new skills and celebrate mistakes.
Wysocki graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2018 when they were awarded The Graduate Art Prize. They are based at Paradise Works, an artist’s studio and exhibition space on the Salford Manchester border.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS
10 Artists 10 Years HOME Granada Foundations Gallery, Manchester 2025
Art Direction Sounds From The Other City 2025
Desert Residency Almeria, Spain 2024 and 2025
Art is Resistance! Framer Framed, Amsterdam 2024
Queer World Building Seesaw, Manchester 2024
Looking at Art Fair People Looking at Art Manchester Contemporary 2024
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Paradise Works, Manchester 2024
Friends of Dorothy X The Refuge The Kimpton Hotel, Manchester 2024
HOME Open Exhibition Castlefield Development Award Nominee HOME, Manchester 2024
I Extend My Arms Tate Collective 2023
Combine With Me Cass Art for A Modest Show, Manchester 2022
Food of the Gods for A Modest Show Dez Rez Projects, Manchester 2022
Bad Art presents Let Them Eat Fake The Bomb Factory, London 2022
Millenialism Paradise Works for Manchester Contemporary (TV Babies) 2019
TV Babies present SWEAT @ Castlefield New Art Space, Manchester 2018
AWARDS
DYCP Arts Council England 2025
Haworth Trust Scholarship 2024-25
GMCA Inspire Fund 2024
Alumni Prize Manchester School of Art 2018
