Daniel Freaker
Daniel Freaker graduated with an MFA in Fine Art and History and Theory of Art from the Slade School of Art in London in 2000. Since studying, his work has evolved through exhibiting and lecturing in the U.K. and internationally. He lives and works in Portsmouth in the UK.
Freaker’s paintings sit between abstract and figurative spaces, using different types of mark making depending on the subject matter. Some details are clearly defined where others are more suggestive. This is taken further through the frequent use of negative spaces to generate form in a way that plays with absence and presence. The unusual, fluid and dynamic processes generate a sense of nostalgia about moments that are both beautiful and painful and that keep the canvas feeling like it is fluid and still in the process of painting.
Central to Freaker’s works is a sense of tension created through the juxtaposition of colours, processes, marks and subject matter. The interaction of oppositional elements such as architectural and organic, past and future, chaos and order, dynamic and restrained, vibrance and darkness, accident and intention, order and chaos, is what makes the work memorable.
Architecture of Ascent Acrylic on canvas 110 x 90 cm $6,600
Cuboid & Pines Acrylic on canvas 130 x 100 cm $6,900
Forgotten hores Acrylic on canvas 110 x 90 cm $6,600
Quiet Tho ghts Acrylic on canvas 130 x 100 cm $6,900
Sacred Geometry Acrylic on canvas 110 x 90 cm $6,900
The anopticon Acrylic on canvas 220 x 150 cm, $10,800
EXHIBITIONS
Jul 24 Landscapes (not landscapes), Rogue Gallery, group show, Hastings UK
Feb 24 Heatwave, See Saw Gallery, group show, Manchester, NH, USA
Feb 24 Eye Candy, Skye Gallery, group show, NY, USA
Feb 24 One by One, ABV Gallery, group show, Atlanta, USA
Nov 23 The One With All The Squares III, group show, El Paso Frame Co., Texas
Nov 23 Solace Formed, Allgorithim, online exhibition Artnet
Nov 23 Manchester Contemporary, with Air Gallery, UK
Oct 23 Perfected Imperfections, group show, Kaicen Fragrance House
Oct 23 Affordable Art Fair, with Noon Powell Fine Art, UK
Aug 23 Red, group show, Foxyard Studio Gallery, Stowmarket, UK
Jul 23 Air Open 23, group show, Air Gallery, Altrincham, Cheshire
Jun 23 RBSA Prize 23, group show, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham
Jun 23 UK Covid-19 Inquiry Commemorative Tapestry, collaborative work, London
Apr 23 Sunny Art Prize, group show, Sunny Art Centre, London.
Nov 22 Cluster Art Fair, group show, Oxo Tower Wharf, London.
Oct 22 Return on Art Offline, group show, Künstlerhaus, Vienna.
Oct 22 Promised Moments, solo show, One Paved Court, London
Oct 22 Bath Open Art Prize 22, group show, 44AD Art Space, Bath.
Sep 22 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists art Prize, group show, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham.
July 22 Bubble in the Grass, online group show, Janet Rady Fine Art.
June 22 Between Us, solo show, Noon Powell Fine Art Gallery, London.
May 22 Scenes We’ve all Seen, solo show, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester.
Mar 22 The Other Art Fair, London.
Jan 22 Codes of the Unconscious, group show, The Holly Art Gallery, London.
Dec 21 Wonderment, group show, Noon Powell Fine Art, London.
Oct 21 Objet d’Art, group show, The Holy Art Gallery, London.
Oct 21 Aura, group show, The Holy Art Gallery, London.
Aug 21 Boredom is Not a Luxury, group show, Craft Central London.
Jun 21 Sussex Art Fair
Jan 17 Geometric, group show, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester.
Jun 16 Rewire, group show, Guildhall Chichester.
Jan 16 RITUAL, group show. Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester.
Jan 15 Basis, group show, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester.
Apr 13 Saatchi Gallery, London, group show.
May08 Lesson, group show, Oxmarket Contempoarary, Chichester.
Jan 02 Audio and visual collaboration with the School of Psycholinguistics at University of Grenada, Spain.
Dec 99 Exit, group show, The Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Mar 99 The “A” Gallery, group show, London.
Aug 98 Flat, group show, The Castle, London.
Mar 98 Leisure, group show, Camberwell Leisure Centre, London.
Dec 97 Bound Somewhere, solo show, Meera Gallery, Pune, India
Jan 98 Empathy, solo show, The Spare Gallery, The London Institute.
Nov 96 And Still to Come..., The Art Gallery, group show, London.
Jul 96 Free Beer, group show, The Shooting Gallery, London.
Jul 95 The Royal Family, group show, The Monstrous Carbuncle Gallery, London.
Publications & Prizes:
2024 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine Issue 1: Top Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2024, ISBN: 979-8874352011
2023 99 Future Blue-chip Artists, 2023 edition, Artsted, ISBN: 9791221023220
2023 Arts In Square grant winner, Artinsquare.com
2022 Bath Open 22, 2nd place winner
2022 Artists Responding To…, Issue 5, ISBN: 9772754556003
2022 The Flux Review, Edition 8, ISBN: 9772633643008
2022 Spotlight Contemporary, Issue 29, article/rear cover, Circle Foundation
2022 Chapter 89, interview, online arts magazine, chapter89magazine.com
2022 Art from Heart, winner Jan 23, artfromheart.co.uk
2021 The Flying Fruitbowl, online art platform, theflyingfruitbowl.com
2021 Art Seen, Issue 2, article, The Curators Salon, ISBN: 9798757138329
2021 Al-Tiba9 magazine, Issue 9, ISBN: 9772696249001
2016 Author and editor for BTEC National Revision Guides in Creative Digital Media and Art & Design,
ISBN 9781292150062 & 9781292150222.
Jul 15 Idea of the Wrong, author article in Photopedagogy.com
Apr 10 -
Dec 15 Pearsonportfolio.co.uk, editor and content creator of art, design and media education website.
Dec99 Just, author, a fiction novel. ISBN: 84-88423-128, D.L.: CO-1.258/1999