Freya’s most recent work is in portraiture. She brings together broad influences, combining elements of Renaissance portraiture, 18th century Japanese portraiture as well as more contemporary portrait artists like David Hockney and Kehinde Wiley.
Freya’s sculptural work was made around the lockdown period and used papier-mache, recycled cardboard boxes and fabric, ultimately documented as photographs.
Her most recent sculptures’ heads are wrapped in painted fabric which reaches beak-like peaks. The sculptures are unable to see or to communicate. The fabric wrapped into the shape of a bird’s head on top of each sculpture, references the pandemic face mask and the mask of the plague doctor, as well as more generally referencing an insularity, or a looking inwards.
Press
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/arts/design/grayson-perry-artclub-coronavirus.html
Lampoon Magazine | ReA! Art Fair, Milan
https://www.sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/bridging-corona/art-prize-shortlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5621NtoEHM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.generazionecritica.it/en/denizen-freya-moffat/
https://www.realcommunicationworks.com/freya-moffat-considers-the-nature-of-loneliness
Exhibitions:
Interim Show, ‘Mother’ Shoreditch, London 2019
Last Week’s Drawings, Group exhibition, Take Courage Gallery, New Cross, London 2019
Faces, Moons, Spoons, Clouds and Shoes, Cave Space, Pimlico, London 2019
Final, Not Over, Group exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery, London, July 2020
Global Impact, The Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, United States, September 2020
ReA Arte art fair, Milan, Italy, October 2020
Auntie Frieze, Cave Space, Pimlico, London 2020
Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney 2020
Grayson Perry’s Art Club Exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, November, 2020- 2021
Building Towards a New Future, Bermondsey Project Space, London, December 2021
Solo show at the Fondazione Pini, Milan, 2021
City and Guilds of London Art School Degree Show, The Barge House, 2021
November Print Fair, The Tub, Hackney, 2021.
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Boisdale and Alice’s Oyster Bar and Gallery, 2022
Significant Other, Art Bypass Gallery, 2022
Corporeal Confusion, ASC Gallery, 2022
StArt Fair, Saatchi Gallery, 2022
Freya graduated with a First Class degree in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2020. She lives on a houseboat in London. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Oxford and an eclectic experience working in the arts.
Freya had a solo show at the Fondazione Pini in Milan and work in Grayson Perry’s post-lockdown exhibition in the Manchester Art Gallery following a feature on his Channel 4 series ‘Grayson’s Art Club’. Her work has recently on show at Bermondsey Project Space, The Oxo Barge House, Cave Space Pimlico, REA Arte Fair in Milan and The Foundry Art Center in St Charles Missouri.
She has also been shortlisted for both the Jackson’s Painting Prize and the Signature Art Prize and won third place in the Sustainability First Art Prize- her work will be published in a book following the prize. She was also awarded the Fondazione Pini award which resulted in her solo show at the esteemed Milan gallery and house.
Freya’s work has been featured in Lampoon Magazine, The Evening Standard and the New York Times. Her work is currently featured in Lampoon Magazine.
Freya was co-founder of gallery and studio space The Tub, Hackney and now runs TALO Gallery.