Danielle Freakley

Education

2004 Masters (First Class) Visual Arts, VCA, Melbourne. 2003 Honours Fine Arts, VCA, Melbourne. 2002 BA Fine Arts, WAAPA, Perth.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 'Dear Art, Please Touch Me' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2007 ‘Opinions are like Assholes and Everybody's got One' Mori Gallery, Sydney. 'Lunch Performance' The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York. (Commended by Vito Acconci) 2006 ‘We Must Support Ourselves’ curation, Spacement, Melbourne. ‘Space Games’ Containers, Commonwealth Games Art Program, Next Wave, Melbourne. 2002 'Drawathon' Spectrum, Perth.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 'Primavera' Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 'And the Difference is' NUS Museum, Singapore 2007 'Ill Communication' Gertrude Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 'Interpositions' Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and 24hr Art, Darwin. 'The One and the Many' Dell Gallery, Centre of Contemporary Art, Brisbane. 2006 'Camus Versus Diderot’ AVA Gallery, London. ‘Endgame - Late Capitilist Realism’ Maragret Laurence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne. 2005 ‘Wonderland,’ Breadbox, Perth.  ‘Simulton, 100 Seconds,’ Timirasue, Romania. ‘Strip Tease Every day Objects’ Polytechnic Institute, New York. ‘Check Point’ Mori Gallery, Sydney. ‘Work in Progress’ Spacement, Melbourne. 2003 ‘Hatched’ Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.

Selected Exhibitions on Artist Running Space (Art Gallery Human performance)

2006 ‘Zones of Left Contact’ Adam Hill, Stephen Mori, Kurnell shoreline and sand dunes, - Opening night Biennale of Sydney. ‘Wet Wet Wet’ Paul Batt, Marc Dejong, Mina Young, Laureen Lawnsdown ,- Commonwealth Games Swimming Arena. ‘Made to Measure’ Cabin Exchange Glasgow collective – Docklands Melbourne. ‘Lost in the Crowd’ Dominic Redfern, Merrin Eirth, Emile Zile, Gabrielle De Vietri, Shannon Holopainen, Drew Horsfall - The Big Day Out festival, Melbourne. ‘TV Dads’Luis Martinez -Neighbours (TV Show) tour, Family house. 2005 'Octopussy’ Jessie Angwin - Chinatown, Bubblecup, Melbourne.

Lived Performances

2006 October 23rd ongoing ‘The Quote Generator’ Lived in Daily life anywhere Freakley would normally go. Not used at home, in the studio, in work situations, organizational situations, writing or on the phone. 2004 Jan - July ‘Text Mask Series’ Lived in daily life. Not shown in the home, at the bank, in the airport, in the studio.

Selected Grants, Awards and Residencies

2008 'Landerer Scholarship' finalist for Phd in Visual Art, London 2007 'Qantas Spirit of Youth Award - Visual Arts' Australia. 'New Work - Emerging Artist Grant' The Australia Council for the Arts, Australia. 'Next Wave Kickstart Grant' Australia. 'Artist in Residence' Universiy of Melbourne,(includes undergraduate tutoring) 'Artist in Residence' Monash, Melbourne. (includes undergraduate tutoring) 2004 ‘NGV Women’s Association Award’ Melbourne. 2003 ‘Theadore Urbach, Masters Award’ Melbourne. 2002 ‘John Birman Memorial Prize’ Perth.

Selected Collections

Selected Publications and Appearances

2008 'The Art Life' ABC Australia.'The Quote Generator' Art World magazine, Art Collector journal, Australia. 'Picking Up' Runway Magazine, Australia,'Dear Art Please Touch Me' Real Time, Australia 2007 'The Quote Generator' Enough Rope, ABC, Andrew Denton, Australia. 'Mirroring our Dialogue' Artlink, Australia. 'Dying for your Art' The Age, Melbourne. 'Art and its Audience' review, Art Monthly, Australia.  Panellist, speeches and presentations as 'The Quote Generator' Melbourne City Council. Emerging Writers Festival Melbourne. National Young Writers' Festival, Newcastle. Monash Melbourne, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Northern Territory, RMIT.  'The One and the Many' 'An ichat with Stuart Ringholt, Darryn Sylvester and Danielle Freakley' Machine Magazine, Queensland. 2006 'Text Me' Eyeline Magazine, Australia.‘ Art Gallery Human’ MX Melbourne. ‘Never Lost for a Quote.’ The West Australian Newspaper. 2005 ‘Danielle Freakley’ Un magazine. ‘This Space for Hire, Danielle Freakley is a One Woman Gallery’ Sydney Morning Herald. 2004 ‘Out There’ Art Collector Journal.

Links to Freakley Shows and Performances Non QG

'Dear Art, Please Touch Me' The National Gallery of Victoria/Australia, Melbourne 2008

Opinions are Like Assholes and Everybody's Got One, Mori Gallery, Sydney 2007

Small Quiet Gestures, Linden, Melbourne 2007

Artist Running Space (Art Gallery Human Performance Project) 2004 - 2006

We Must Support Ourselves 2006

Text Masks (Lived Performance Project) 2004

Don't You Fuckin Look at Me (requires sound) 2004