Danielle Freakley

Australian Performance Artist, Sculptor, Interactive
Installation, Drawing and Sound Artist

Freakley Performance and Soundpieces

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Freakley CV

Education

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 'Phase Two' PERFORMA Visual Art Performance Biennial of New York, X Initiative Space, Chelsea, New York. 2008 'Dear Art, Please Touch Me' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2007 ‘Opinions are like Assholes and Everybody's got One' Mori Gallery, Sydney. 2006 ‘We Must Support Ourselves’ curation, Spacement, Melbourne. ‘Space Games’ Containers, Commonwealth Games Art Program, Next Wave, Melbourne2005 'Artist Running Space' Mori Gallery, Sydney 2002 'Drawathon' Spectrum, Perth.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 'Artifice' Kuala Lumpur Triennial, Malaysia. 'The Church of Gorgeous Taps with the Crying Woman' PERFORMA Visual Art Performance Biennial of New York. ' ABCyz' Silver Shed, Chelsea, New York. 'Maximum Perception Performance Festival' Brooklyn, New York. 'And The Difference Is' Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. ' Gone in No Time' Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. Altered Ego' Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales. 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 - There's Nothing Wrong with Choosing Happiness' AVA Gallery, London. ‘Endgame - Late Capitilist Realism’ Maragret Laurence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne. 2005 ‘Wonderland,’ Breadbox Gallery, 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

2009 Ongoing ‘The Quote Generator Phase Two' Lived in Daily life anywhere Freakley would go. Not used at home, in organizational situations. 2006 - 2008 ‘The Quote Generator Phase One’ Lived in Daily life anywhere Freakley would go. Not used at home, in organizational situations. 2004 'Text Mask Series’ Lived in daily life anywhere Freakley would go. Not shown in the home, at the bank, in the airport, in the studio.

Selected Grants, Awards and Residencies

2009 'Gone in No Time' Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 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 tutoring undergraduate students) 'Artist in Residence' Monash, Melbourne. (includes tutoring undergraduate students) 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

2009 'You Shall Worship No Other Artist God' Benjamin Gottlieb, Art+Culture, New York. 'Who Made Who' The Art Life, ABC Television, Australia. ‘Performance Studies International, Psi15 collaboration with Sideways Shift ’ Zagreb, Croatia. ‘Feminism Never Happened’ Alexie Glass, Art & Australia. 2008 'Primavera' Adam Jasper, Frieze Magazine. 'The Art Life' ABC Television, Australia. 'Primavera' Art World magazine. 'Primavera' 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' 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.