Josie Kirkham Frid

Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Öland, Sweden.

Art for me is a visual capture of raw emotion and energy. It gives me an outlet to feel in colour. To talk in shapes. To give all that I have in honest form yet invite interpretations of what that really is. I’m fascinated and inspired by the impermanence of perception. How energy and emotions can shape reactions and how everything is transient.

My art is an abstract exploration of feelings and reflections. An energetic and multifaceted outburst of colours and movements following my flow. I use paint with an unrestricted sense of adventure and I invite clashes of material with great excitement - exploring the energy in materials that don’t quite get along. It’s all about the movement and the response.

I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by artists and a contagious amount of creativity
since I was a child. Art was always a natural state of being and doing. A way to communicate freely without the restrictions of words.

I finished my schooling in Sweden and studied Humanistic Course with Aesthetic Art.

EOS art - 4 group exhibitions, Cape Town
First Thursdays- Solo exhibition at Selvedge, Cape Town
Zeitz MOCAA - group exhibition, Cape Town
Galleri 13 - Solo exhibition, Borgholm, Sweden
HJO Konstrunda - Sweden