A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Freya was a recipient of the Andrew Grant Travel and Equipment Bursary and a nominee for the New Blood Emerging Art Prize. Her practice combines painting and sculpture in an exploration of the perceptual experience of spatiality through an engagement with familiar, found and collected materials. Ripping, tying, binding, balancing, drenching, rinsing, scratching, marking, constructing, staining, excavating, destroying, rebuilding, mending, sewing, meandering, returning, leaning, knotting, stacking, toppling, bending, exposing, moving and starting again - her practice uses the physicality of making to explore the exhaustive life cycles of sites of destruction as they fluctuate.
This work looks to inhabit the space as a body of structures, each suspended in the tensions and instability of their material. Using the immediacy of everyday materials, the artist looks to draw a connection between living and destruction. The paintings are a slower processing of collected sensory memories, drawings and readings. Alongside these, the sculptural constructions become a direct reaction to the paintings, the space and the artist's experience of this during their in-situ construction. Collectively the structures aim to disrupt your natural navigation around the space, asking for a consciousness of your presence within the space.
