Artist Statement:

Freya Madeline Tate is a photographic artist whose practice is hands-on, combining a love of craft and set building with explorations of her self-image. As a working-class neurodivergent Freya offers a cheeky British attitude and a romantic tragi-comic take on the world. She makes work that explores very personal themes addressing specific relationships and periods in her life but can be encapsulated as her relationship to time and the connections she treasures with others.

Her practice is highly personal, she performs in the photographs and draws upon life experiences but is sited in a wider context in which she explores humanity and a quest to find meaning. While making the work, Freya is concerned with the future and how our epoch will be perceived. She describes her work as ‘presciently tap-dancing on the grave of our era’.

Freya’s creative process involves self-reflection to identify a theme, which she then visualises through a feminist lens employing humour and play. Freya’s practice has evolved to explore sexuality in the 21st century and the ways that we are influenced and guided, often unknowingly, by what she believes to be a problematic culture (capitalist, disconnected and patriarchal)

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