Dionne Freeman
Dionne Freeman
Oxford, United Kingdom
About Dionne Freeman
Artist Statement
I am interested in exploring the complexities of landscape identity within my practice. The interruptions of how a space is experienced and the need to capture space, a sense of time and how those concepts are constantly evolving and changing as they are experienced in different settings and formats. I feel like I am constantly on the precipice of understanding this instinct to visualise landscapes; connecting time and space within my work. This can only be solved through the exploration of surfaces and how marks can create traces, memories; exploring the need to make connections with the familiar. How the work itself contains a sense of time and how the intuitive ritualistic element of my practice seeks to formulate the familiar.
About
I am an experienced arts educator. My practice focuses on working with others, sharing skills and facilitating projects for people to express themselves and communicate through the visual arts, specialising in spatial and self-awareness. I use my expressive approaches to deliver learning and self-awareness, as well as teaching to inspire, engage and enthuse others.
My practice explores my own perception of spaces and how the complexities of identity, time and memory can be explored through the visual. Recent exhibitions include Inside Out at Cornerstone and Bringing the Outside in at Oxford Botanic Garden; I have also exhibited my work in London and Amsterdam, but most recently focused in creating work that responds to Oxfordshire based sites and spaces.
I am interested in exploring the complexities of landscape identity within my practice. The interruptions of how a space is experienced and the need to capture space, a sense of time and how those concepts are constantly evolving and changing as they are experienced in different settings and formats. I feel like I am constantly on the precipice of understanding this instinct to visualise landscapes; connecting time and space within my work. This can only be solved through the exploration of surfaces and how marks can create traces, memories; exploring the need to make connections with the familiar. How the work itself contains a sense of time and how the intuitive ritualistic element of my practice seeks to formulate the familiar.
About
I am an experienced arts educator. My practice focuses on working with others, sharing skills and facilitating projects for people to express themselves and communicate through the visual arts, specialising in spatial and self-awareness. I use my expressive approaches to deliver learning and self-awareness, as well as teaching to inspire, engage and enthuse others.
My practice explores my own perception of spaces and how the complexities of identity, time and memory can be explored through the visual. Recent exhibitions include Inside Out at Cornerstone and Bringing the Outside in at Oxford Botanic Garden; I have also exhibited my work in London and Amsterdam, but most recently focused in creating work that responds to Oxfordshire based sites and spaces.
Events
YouTube Channel Dionne Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClLd7arhV_RWMA9sU2B4wlA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClLd7arhV_RWMA9sU2B4wlA
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2019 Moments in time Mill Arts
2019 Dionne Freeman Artist Artweeks
2015 Inside Out Solo Show Cornerstone
2012 Encompass April Pegasus Theatre
2011 Bringing The Outside In University of Oxford Botanic Garden
2010 Time & Space The Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford
2009 Escapism Fusion Arts Centre Oxford
2007 Print 2 Watlington
2007 London 06 Gallery Abingdon
Group Shows
2017 Beyond the Surface Group Show Glass Tank
2014 Regular national and international sales through Saatchi Art
2013 Women at the HeArt Group show The Old Fire Station Oxford
2010 Live Art 2 Man Show Oxford Artweeks
2009 Escapism II Group show Natural History Museum Oxford
2009 The Royal Society of Arts with SEGRO project
2008 Oxford Open Modern Art Oxford
2008 Prelude IAF March 08, Spitalfields London
2008 Angel Art Market, Islington London
2008 Prelude IAF 08, Spitalfields London
2007 Prelude IAF Spitalfields London
2007 A Reality 2 man exhibition, Oxford Artweeks,
06 Gallery, Abingdon
2007 Watlington Art Exhibition Group Show
2007 View from the Top, Nottingham December
2006 Islington Art & Design Fair, London
2006 4 man show, Watlington Town Hall
2006 Prelude IAF August, Spitalfields London
2006 Prelude IAF December, Spitalfields London
2004 3 man show, Nelson & Thornes, Cheltenham
2019 Moments in time Mill Arts
2019 Dionne Freeman Artist Artweeks
2015 Inside Out Solo Show Cornerstone
2012 Encompass April Pegasus Theatre
2011 Bringing The Outside In University of Oxford Botanic Garden
2010 Time & Space The Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford
2009 Escapism Fusion Arts Centre Oxford
2007 Print 2 Watlington
2007 London 06 Gallery Abingdon
Group Shows
2017 Beyond the Surface Group Show Glass Tank
2014 Regular national and international sales through Saatchi Art
2013 Women at the HeArt Group show The Old Fire Station Oxford
2010 Live Art 2 Man Show Oxford Artweeks
2009 Escapism II Group show Natural History Museum Oxford
2009 The Royal Society of Arts with SEGRO project
2008 Oxford Open Modern Art Oxford
2008 Prelude IAF March 08, Spitalfields London
2008 Angel Art Market, Islington London
2008 Prelude IAF 08, Spitalfields London
2007 Prelude IAF Spitalfields London
2007 A Reality 2 man exhibition, Oxford Artweeks,
06 Gallery, Abingdon
2007 Watlington Art Exhibition Group Show
2007 View from the Top, Nottingham December
2006 Islington Art & Design Fair, London
2006 4 man show, Watlington Town Hall
2006 Prelude IAF August, Spitalfields London
2006 Prelude IAF December, Spitalfields London
2004 3 man show, Nelson & Thornes, Cheltenham
