Visiting Artist’s Talk – Freya Dooley

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Freya Dooley, an artist whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses writing, moving image, sound and performance.

Freya Dooley’s work is often rooted in close-range observations, layered narratives and sonic compositions expand outwards in scale, forming intimate connections between divergent subjects. The wider themes in Dooley’s practice relate to the harmonies and tensions between personal and collective experiences, with a particular interest in structures of work and domestic living.

Freya was the Creative Wales-BSR Fellow at The British School at Rome in 2021, and was awarded the Wales Venice 10 Artes Mundi Commission in 2022. Her forthcoming solo exhibition False Note opens at Site Gallery, Sheffield in March 2024.

Previous exhibitions and performances include Diamonds and Rust, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2022); Temporary Commons, Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London (2021); Scenes from Between the Mountains and the Sea, Beppu Project, Oita, Japan (2020); New Writing with New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery and South London Gallery (2019-20) Somewhere in the Crowd There's You, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2019).

Freya also often collaborates with other artists and musicians in projects which span listening events, exhibition programmes and radio broadcasts. She lives and works in Cardiff. 

About the Visiting Artists’ Talks series

The Visiting Artist’s Talk (VAT) series hosts talks by an exciting range of arts practitioners from around the world every Monday afternoon from 2 to 4pm during teaching weeks.

All of our talks are compulsory for our Fine Art students but are also open to anyone else who would like to join us.

For more information, please email Chris Taylor.

Directions to Chemistry Lecture Theatre B

See the campus map for location of the Chemistry building.

Go through the Chemistry main entrance, turn right, follow the corridor round to the left, go through the double doors and the lift and stairs are both immediately on your right.

Either go up 1.5 flights of stairs to an upper landing and Chemistry Lecture Theatre B is at the end of the landing on your right or take the lift to the 2nd floor, turn left upon exiting and Chemistry Lecture Theatre B is at the end of the landing on your right.

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Freya Dooley, The Understudy performance for New Writing with New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, 2019. Courtesy New Contemporaries. Photography by Jules Lister.