Freya Tripp | 23.05.1986 

Contact: freyatrippstudio@gmail.com | 0401 475 918

HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS

  • 2024 – Ongoing: PhD Candidate (Doctor of Philosophy), Charles Darwin University, NT.

  • 2012 – 2015: Master of Arts (Research), Charles Darwin University, NT.

  • 2006 – 2011: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Southern Cross University, NSW.

DURATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS & SOCIAL PRACTICE

In alignment with contemporary feminist maintenance art movements, this node frames caregiving, systemic advocacy, and lived neurodivergence as active sites of social practice and institutional critique, consciously rejecting the false boundary between maternal labour and artistic production.

  • 2021 – Present: Durational Performance / Early Childhood Caregiving (Chapter II), Central Autralia /NSW.

  • 2019 – Present: Durational Performance / Early Childhood Caregiving (Chapter I), Central Australia / Lorinna.

  • 2024 – Present: Materializing Neuroqueer Perspectives in Contemporary Practice, Ongoing Research-Creation.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (SOLO & GROUP)

  • 2026 – 2027 (Proposed): Re-submerging a (m)other Anarchive, Site-Responsive Installation & Community Activation, Lorinna, TAS (Solo).

  • 2026: The Report Card Project, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada (Group).

  • 2022: Concrete Candy, Peek Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW (Group).

  • 2018: Summer Salon, Gallery CAS, VIC (Group).

  • 2014: Crisis Of The Soul, Nan Giese Gallery, Charles Darwin University, NT (Solo).

  • 2014: Squared, Watch This Space ARI, Alice Springs, NT (Group).

  • 2012: Spectacle & Observer, Traffic Jam Galleries, Sydney, NSW (Group).

  • 2010: 100% Meat: Consuming Identity, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (Solo).

  • 2010: Petits Travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW (Group).

  • 2010: Revolution of Art, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW (Group).

RELEVANT DIALOGUES & SECTOR ENGAGEMENT

  • 2026: Board of Management, Sawtooth Artist Run Initiative, Launceston, TAS.

  • 2026: Collaborating Artist, The Report Card Project / Re-Storying Autism (International research initiative led by Dr. Patty Douglas, Brandon University, Canada, and Haley Clark).

PRIZES, PUBLICATIONS & RESIDENCIES

  • 2019 – 2020: Artist Residency, Artist In Residence In Motherhood (Self-directed international residency framework), NSW.

  • 2019: Featured Profile, ARTEDIT Magazine, Spring Issue (September).

  • 2017: Published Text & Visuals, Northern Territory Writers Festival Journal, Issue #2: 'The Territory In-Between'.

  • 2017: Published Critical Text, Arts Review: 'The Perception Experiment'.

  • 2014: Finalist, Tasmanian Portraiture Prize (Painting), Arts Tasmania, TAS.

  • 2008: Recipient, The Kaske Award (Painting), Southern Cross University, NSW.

RELEVANT ARTS SECTOR WORK HISTORY

  • 2021 – 2023: Art Gallery Assistant / Arts Writing & Content, Peek Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW.

  • 2018 – 2020: Art Gallery Assistant / Arts Writing & Content, Thomgallery, Byron Bay, NSW.

  • 2016 – 2018: Art Gallery Manager, AMAGOA Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

  • 2017: Visitor Services Officer, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT.

  • 2016: Art Gallery Assistant, Alice Springs Town Council, Alice Springs, NT.

  • 2014 – 2016: Art Gallery Assistant & Studio Support, Talapi Art Gallery, Alice Springs, NT.

  • 2015 – 2016: Artist Support, Bindi Inc. (Mwerre Anthurre Artists – Supported Studio for Artists with Disabilities), Alice Springs, NT.

  • 2015: Visitor Services Officer, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart, TAS.

BOARD GOVERNANCE & SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE ROLES

  • 2016: Installation Assistant, Wide Open Space Music & Arts Festival, Central Australia, NT.

  • 2015: Board of Management / Secretary Position, Byron Youth Service, NSW.

  • 2014: Board of Management, Watch This Space Artist Run Initiative, Alice Springs, NT.