BIOGRAPHY

Freyja Fristad is a Wiradjuri print-based artist who lives and creates work across Dharawal and Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Fristad was the recipient of the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Indigenous Emerging) in 2023, the Megalo Studio and Gallery Residency Award (Printmaking) in 2022, and the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2022. In 2023, she was a finalist in the Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award, and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

Her work has been part of many shows and exhibitions, recently including the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists at Ravenswood School for Girls, DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange at 16Albermarle project space, Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award Exhibition at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, and Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. Fristad will also have work featuring in the 2024 Post Graduate Exhibition held at The National Art School in Sydney towards the end of this year.

Her prints have been acquired by The National Art School, Ravenswood School for Girls Collection, Megalo Print Studio Archive, Curtain University Printmaking Collection, RMIT Printmaking Collection, and Southern Cross University Printmaking Collection among others.

Fristad has delivered workshops and classes at The National Art School.
Majoring in Printmaking, she is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School (Gadigal/Sydney, Australia).