Freya Skarsgard
My work introduces a personal dimension into the vastness and magnitude of imaginary worlds. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, I transform familiar realities by suspending bias and previous knowledge, exploring the qualities of liminal space between real and constructed landscapes, making these tangibly present through the act of painting, video and sound.
The unpredictable, violent power of the ocean is a brilliant exemplar of the present inhabited by liminal beginnings and ends. My visual language includes disruptive gestures and material interventions that speak to immaterial rhythms – those invisible forces that drive waves and tides. My imagination is sparked by natural phenomena that the sea can give birth to, such as the play of light on waves, morning fog, low heavy storm clouds or the elusive qualities of light before dusk. Within my work, art and nature unite in an aesthetic singularity.
I search for discordant harmonies that articulate the relationship between objective views of nature and subjective insights which are revealed through a solitary engagement with the ‘otherness’ of nature. I incorporate these aesthetic experiences in my work to allow for manifestations of the sublime to shatter perception and stimulate sensory responses in the viewer.
Sunless, 2020
Acrylic, oil on canvas
900mm x 1200mm x 50mm
Silent Agreement, 2020
Acrylic, oil on canvas
900mm x 1200mm x 50mm
Sentient Transformation of Materia, 2020
Acrylic, oil on canvas
900mm x 1200mm x 50mm
Geomorphology, 2019
Mixed media on canvas
1000mm x 1200mm x 50mm
Glacial Structures, 2019
Mixed media on board
600mm x 895mm x 10mm
Making Sentient Transformation of Materia, 2020
Digital photograph
Borderlines, 2020
Video, sound
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The Blowhole, 2019
Sound
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