Lisa Freeman is an artist and filmmaker. Her films and performances 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), Arts Council of Ireland Project Award (2022), Bursary Award (2024, 2023, 2022, 2020) and Kildare County Council Artist Grant (2016-23). Her work is held in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection.  Recent projects include; Slipped, Part 2, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2024), solo show’s Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 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 (2022 & ‘23). She had an artist publication launch and film screening of Slipped 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) and Brows For Days, The LAB Gallery Dublin (2020). She has shown her work in; RHA Gallery Dublin, Somerset House London, Prenzlauer Kunst Kollektiv Berlin and Solas Nua Washington USA. She completed a BA in Fine Art, CCAD, Cork (2015) and a MA in Art & Research Collaboration, IADT, Dublin (2020). CONTACT freeman.lisamarie@gmail.com @lisa.freeeman ︎  ︎

CURRENT Three Year Studio Member, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2023 Slipped, Fell.. artist publication stocked at The Library Project, Dublin and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios online shop   Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award, 2024

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]  e-flux announcement here Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, Screendance Film Tour, Salt Lake Film Society, Utah, USA [9th - 11th April] 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] 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: Discussion with Lisa Freeman, Austin Hearne, Jaki Irvine, Sarah Pierce and Atoosa Pour Hosseini 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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