Lisa Freeman is an artist and filmmaker from Kildare. Her work draws into question economic and power structures and explores how intimacy might be employed as a form of resistance. She was recently awarded a six-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2025), nominated by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin and supported by Bétonsalon, Paris. Recent presentations of work include; Mirror Lamp Press x Culture File, RTÉ Lyric FM (2026), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2025), Irish Museum of Modern Art (2024), solo show’s at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2024) and SIRIUS, Cork (2024), film screening’s at Salt Lake Film Society, Utah, USA (2024), Cork International Film Festival (2023), Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023), Súitú, aemi’s 2023 touring programme, which screened at WORM Rotterdam, Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam, Galleri Format Malmo, Filmform Stockholm, The Model Sligo, Irish Film Institute Dublin, South Tipperary Arts Centre Clonmel, Belfast Film Festival and Cork International Film Festival. She had an artist publication launch and film screening at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2022) and an online solo presentation on ‘aemi online’ (2022 – 2023). She showed four days of site-specific performances Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off the Dance Floor, with Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2022). She has shown her work in; RHA Gallery Dublin, The LAB Gallery Dublin, Somerset House London and Solas Nua Washington USA.  Recent awards include; the Golden Fleece Award (2026), a six-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris x Institut Francais (2025), Three Year Membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2023-2025), an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award (2025, 2022), Bursary Award (2025), the aemi & SIRIUS film commission award (2023), Project Studio Award at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2022) and Kildare County Council Artist Grant (2016-23). She completed a BA in Fine Art, CCAD, Cork (2015) and a MA at IADT Dublin (2020). Her work is held in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection. CONTACT freeman.lisamarie@gmail.com ︎  ︎

2026 Golden Fleece Award, 2026 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, 2026 Commissioned radio poem, Mirror Lamp Press x Culture File, RTÉ Lyric FM, 2026  Slipped, Fell.. artist publication stocked at The Library Project, Dublin and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios online shop   Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award, 2025 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award, 2025 2025 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, with post-screening Q&A, MEP Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2025 Film Fest Akizuki, Japan, 27 - 28th September 2025 Collected Expression, MTU Alumni in the Arts Council Collection, Munster Technological University, 15th September - 15th October, 2025  Ateliers Ouverts / Open Studios, Institut français x Cité internationale des arts, Paris  11th June 2025, curated by Violette Morisseau Residency; Cité Internationale des Arts x Institut français,  Paris, April - October 2025 [Supported by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin and Bétonsalon, Paris] International Film Festival Rotterdam, Short & mid-length programme, 2025 Artist Talk, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin as part of Basic Space Talks, 2025 Three Year Studio Member, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2023 - 2025

2024 Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss, Solo Exhibition, SIRIUS, Cork [14th September - 12th October] Artist Talk with Sarah Long as part of Solo Exhibition at SIRIUS, Cork [14th September] Slipped, Part 2, IMMA Summer Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin [3rd August] Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss, Solo Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin [22nd March – 26th May]  Artist Talk: Lisa Freeman in conversation with Michael Hill at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin [17th May] From Practice to Exhibition: Studio Visit with Lisa Freeman at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin [8th April] Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, Screendance Film Tour, Salt Lake Film Society, Utah, USA [9th - 11th April] 2023   aemi & SIRIUS Film Commission, screening at Cork International Film Festival, 2023 Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, included in Súitú, aemi’s 2023 Touring Programme. National and international venues include: Irish Film Institute, Dublin: 29th June, with filmmakers Q&A The Model, Sligo: 15th July - 8th September Black Hole Studio, Roscommon: 26th July WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands: 13th September, with filmmakers Q&A Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 15th September, with filmmakers Q&A Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden: 4th October, with filmmakers Q&A Filmform, Stockholm, Sweden: 6th October, with filmmakers Q&A South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel: 6th October Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray: 14th October - 2nd December, with filmmakers Q&A Belfast Film Festival: 11th November Slipped, Fell.. publication included in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Book Fair, 2023 Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor screening as part of Mermaid Arts Centre, 21st Birthday, Bray, 2023. Read about it on the Irish Independent. Artist talk, Film and Photography Summer School, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2023 Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor screening at Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023 Performing Conversations: artist talk as part of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 40 years of artists working in the city, 2023 Pallas Projects: Art Works! 2023, Contemporary Art Auction, 2023 Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2022-23 Artist talk and writing workshop with NCAD Studio+ 2023 Visiting Lecturer, ARC MA programme, IADT, Dublin, 2023 2022 Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, acquired for the Arts Council of Ireland Collection aemi online, solo exhibition, October 2022 - January 2023   Artist publication launch, Q&A and screening of Slipped.. at Mermaid Arts Centre, 2022 MAP Magazine, My Mouth Is Very Hot Now, written response to Lauren Gault Galalith Exhibition, 2022 Slipped, Fell.. publication included in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Book Fair, 2022 Súitú, aemi 2023 Touring Programme, premiere at Cork International Film Festival, with filmmakers Q&A, 2022 Artist talk, National College of Art & Design, Contemporary Art Models Series, 2022 Collaborative Language-Making workshops for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Summer School, 2022   Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, four days of site-specific performances with Mermaid Arts Centre, 2022 Limited Edition Postcard for Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, 2022 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award, 2022

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