Zoe Freney Explained

Zoe Freney
Nationality:Australian
Education:Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide Centre for the Arts, University of Adelaide
Known For:painting
Spouse:Dr Martin Freney

Zoe Freney is a South Australian artist, arts writer and arts educator. She and her husband, Martin Freney, have also built Australia’s first council-approved Earthship.

Biography

Freney has a Diploma of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art (2005), a Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Centre for the Arts (2006), and a Master in Art History from the University of Adelaide (2010).[1] Freney lectures in art history at Adelaide Central School of Art.[1]

As an arts writer, she has written several catalogue essays and reviews (see Bibliography) and in 2017, she was one of four artists (including Daniel Connell) who travelled to India as part of a South Australian Government Arts Engagement Program.[2] [3]

She is married to Martin Freney and they have two sons.[4] Together, they built a strawbale house[4] and followed this by building Australia’s first council-approved Earthship,[5] Earthship Ironbank, which they rent out as a B&B.

Artistic style and subject

Freney is a painter whose paintings examine motherhood and often feature herself as model, as seen in the group exhibition, Good Mother,[6] her solo exhibition, Motherology,[7] and the group exhibition, Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood at Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University (2018).[8]

Awards and prizes

She has been a finalist in the Heysen Landscape Art Prize (2018),[9] the Prospect Portrait Prize (2017),[10] the Fleurieu Biennale (2018)[11] and the Emma Hack Art Prize (2017).[12] Freney was also a joint winner of the inaugural Queen of Clubs Art Prize from Peter Lehmann Wines in 2000.[13]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zoe Freney . Adelaide Central School of Art . 18 March 2019 . en . 13 September 2018.
  2. Web site: Freney . Zoe . A river understands me: Tales of Indian Art Engagement by Zoe Freney . fine print . 18 March 2019 . en-AU.
  3. Web site: Connell . Daniel . Special Feature : The Aesthetics of Togetherness . www.mojarto.com . 28 March 2018.
  4. Web site: Callow . Steph . The artist and co-creator of Australia's first Earthship shares some of her home favourites - realestate.com.au . www.realestate.com.au . 18 March 2019 . 20 August 2018.
  5. Web site: Freney . Martin . From earth, cans and tyres: Earthship Ironbark - Renew Magazine . Renew . 18 March 2019 . en-AU . 23 September 2015.
  6. Web site: Good Mother . Adelaide Central School of Art . en . 13 September 2018.
  7. Web site: Neylon . John . Adelaide exhibition guide: December 2018 . The Adelaide Review . en-AU . 5 December 2018.
  8. Web site: Labors . www.artistparentindex.com.
  9. Web site: The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2018 . Hahndorf Academy . en-AU.
  10. Web site: Prospect . The City of . Prospect Portrait Prize - Submissions . The City of Prospect . en . 28 November 2017.
  11. Web site: About . Fleurieu Biennale.
  12. Web site: Emma Hack Art Prize . www.emmahackartprize.com.
  13. Web site: 05 Jun 2003 - Peter Lehmann Wines - Bulletin Board - Archived Website . https://web.archive.org/web/20030605124742/http://www.peterlehmannwines.com.au/bboard.htm . dead . 5 June 2003 . Trove . en . 18 March 2019 .

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