KIRA FREIJE
Forgetting and Unforgetting, 2017, steel, aluminium, rubber, glass orb, light, 58 x 39 x 39cm
Despite the Tides She Foiled the Waves and Came to be the Last, 2018 steel, cast aluminium, velvet, felt, light, coolant tank from Ford, Dimensions variable
Never Did We Find The World, 2017, steel, blown glass, light, 134 x 68 x 65cm
Limpet Crusader, 2017 steel, fur, blown glass, light, 121 x 48 x 18cm
Holy Woman, 2016 steel, cast aluminium, wool, neoprene, silk, 88 x 78 x 65cm
Install view: A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, 2016, Royal Academy Schools Show
Install view: A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, 2016, Royal Academy Schools Show
Left: Conversation, 2016, steel, 167 x 189 x 55cm. Right: Argument, 2016, steel, wig, dimensions variable
We Strike a Match At The Very Same Time To Signal Our Own Unique Unity, 2016, steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, 86 x 217 x 80cm
She Came In and Never Left, One Step From Death, A Meteorite Without Fire, 2016, steel, silkscreen on steel, silk, lights, 150 x 150 x 175cm
Standing Woman Arms Folded, 2015 steel, 230 x 105 x 31cm
Die Searching, 2016, steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, tin, hand dyed cotton, polo shirt sleeve, fur, dimensions variable.
Fallen Woman, 2016, steel, stainless steel, motor, fabric, 253 x 36 x 48cm
Hearing No Steps Besides Her Own, She Faced the Cold and Melting Skin, 2016 steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, cast aluminium, silk, 170 x 60 x 88cm
Detail: Hearing No Steps Besides Her Own, She Faced the Cold and Melting Skin
Left: Ovule, 2017, steel, cast aluminium, Japanese silk, pvc, 165 x 66 x 70cm. Right: Fugitive, 2017, steel, cast aluminium, cotton, wool, alpaca, 170 x 48 x 56cm
Install view: The Dark Away, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK, 2017
The Greater Control, 2017 steel, 134 x 45 x 67cm
Friend, My Friend, I Love You No More, 2016 steel, silk, wig, 73 x 130 x 54cm
Saviour, 2016 steel, stainless steel, cast aluminium, wool, cotton mesh, fur, 162 x 71 x 80cm
Detail: Saviour
The Unbeliever, 2016 steel, cast aluminium, antique silk, wool, blown glass flame, light, 182 x 69 x 94cm
Detail: The Unbeliever
Detail: The Unbeliever
KIRA FREIJE b. 1985, London, UK Lives and works in London, UK. www.kirafreije.com kirafreije@me.com Education: 2013-16 Royal Academy Schools, London 2008-11 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford Residency s & Awards: The Elephant Trust Royal Academy of Arts permanent collection. Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Project Award, London Advanced Course in Visual Arts (visiting Professor Matt Mullican), Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy Red Mansion Residency, Beijing, China Pirye Prize, University of Oxford
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 The Violence of an Imagined Dusk, 12 Mackintosh Lane, London, UK Dead Heat, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany (group show) The Sleeping Procession, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK (group show) No Place to Spit, SET project space, London, UK (group show) The Dark Away, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK (solo) Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy (group show) God s Finger, Kinman Gallery, London, UK (group show) Our Tongues are The Replaceable Filaments (curated by Stella Bottai), Occidental Temporary, Paris, France (solo presentation) A Rose Is Without a Why. It Blooms Because It Blooms, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK (group show) A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, RA Schools Show, Royal Academy, London, UK (solo presentation) All About My Mother (curated and participated in for International Women s Day), Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (group show) Chimp Cracks Nut (To What Extent Is It Asking A Question?), Kennington Residency, London, UK (group show) Suzy Culinski and Friends, Fanta Spazio, Milan, Italy (group show) Yesterday Night, Rowhill Mansions, London, UK (group show) Testing Tropes, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK (group show) Premiums Interim Projects, Royal Academy, London, UK (group show Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (group show) Greenhorn, Tintype, London, UK (solo) Red Mansion Art Prize, Burlington Gardens, London, UK (group show)