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BIO


Lisa Freeman works across scripted performance, filmmaking, text and installation. Her films and performances are often set within specific geographic and architectural landscapes. They draw into question economic and power structures and explore how intimacy might be employed as a form of resistance.

Recent awards include; Three Year Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2023-), aemi & SIRIUS Film Commission Award 2023, Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2022-23), Arts Council of Ireland Project Award (2022), Bursary Award (2022, 2020), Agility Award (2021) and Kildare County Council Artist Grant (2016-23). Her work is held in the collection of the Arts Council of Ireland.

Recent projects include; an online solo presentation on ‘aemi online’ (October 2022 – January 2023); Súitú – aemi’s 2023 touring programme, which premiered at Cork International Film Festival (November 2022) and is touring national and international venues in 2023; and an artist publication launch and screening at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (November 2022). She showed four days of site-specific performances Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off the Dance Floor, with Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Wicklow, (2022) and Brows For Days as part of Unassembled,  MA group show, The LAB Gallery Dublin, (2020). She has exhibited and performed site-specifically and in gallery spaces including the RHA Gallery Dublin, Somerset House London, Prenzlauer Kunst Kollektiv Berlin and Solas Nua Washington USA. She completed a MA in Art & Research Collaboration, IADT, Dublin (2020) and a BA in Fine Art, CCAD (2015). 

Freeman has devised and facilitated ‘Collaborative Language-Making’ writing and performance workshops for; NCAD Studio+, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Summer School, Ealain na Nog, Dublin City Council, The Young Art Writers Programme, RHA Gallery Dublin and Dublin Learning City Festival 2019 at The LAB Gallery.




F O R T H C O M I N G
 

Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor screening at Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2023

aemi & SIRIUS Film Commission, premiering at Cork International Film Festival in November 2023 and a forthcoming exhibition at SIRIUS in 2024

Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, included in Súitú, aemi 2023 Touring Programme, touring to national and international venues in 2023  


CURRENT 


Three Year Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2023

Slipped, Fell..
artist publication stocked at The Library Project, Dublin

Commissioned text by Ruairí McCann to Súitú, aemi’s 2023 touring programme, aemi.ie

Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor, purchased for the Arts Council of Ireland Collection

RTÉ Culture, In The Picture: Lisa Freeman's Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor

Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award, 2022


RECENT 
 
Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2022-23

Artist talk and writing workshop with NCAD Studio+ Students, February 2023

Visiting Lecturer, ARC MA programme, IADT, Dublin, February 2023

aemi online, solo exhibition, October 2022 - January 2023  

Artist publication launch, Q&A and screening of Slipped.. at Mermaid Arts Centre, November 2022

MAP Magazine, My Mouth Is Very Hot Now, written response to Lauren Gault Galalith Exhibition

Slipped, Fell.. publication included in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Book Fair, November 2022

Súitú, aemi 2023 Touring Programme, premiere at Cork International Film Festival, with filmmakers Q&A, November 2022

Artist talk, National College of Art & Design, Contemporary Art Models Series, October 2022

Collaborative Language-Making workshops for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Summer School, July 2022  

Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, four days of site-specific performances with Mermaid Arts Centre, June 2022

Limited Edition Postcard for Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, May 2022

Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award, 2022






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