ARTISTS

David Freney-Mills

23-11_ACAE_Freney-Mills-9.jpg


DAVID FRENEY-MILLS


EDUCATION

2005 Graduate Diploma inVisual Art Victorian College of the Art Travelled and worked in Europe from May 2000 to July 2003
1999 Studio Access Course-Latrobe Street School of Art & Design 1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting RMIT


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 “A Reign of Green: Green Rain House” ACAE Gallery, Melbourne

2018 “Oracular Nebula” Five Walls Projects – Footscray 2019“Text-ecology”Alternating CurrentArt Space –Windsor

2017 “Continuum of Variation” Black Cat Gallery – Collingwood

2016 “Porous Amorphous” Project Wall-Town Hall Gallery- Hawthorn Arts Centre 2017“AlchemicalText”Alternating CurrentArt Space –Windsor

2015 “Sublimation Cycle” Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne

2013 “The Aesthetics of Text” Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran

2013 “The Floating Word” Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne

2013 “Chthonic System” Five Walls Projects, Footscray

2012 “Polymorphic”Trocadero Artspace, Footscray

2011 “Strati ed Mantra” PB Gallery, Swinburne University, Prahran

2009 “Class of Consciousness” STEPS Gallery, Carlton

2008 “Ideology and Reality” STEPS Gallery, Carlton

2004 Studio Exhibition, 45 Chapel Street, Fitzroy

2000 COASTER show, Union Club Hotel, Fitzroy
1999 “Human Weather” Big Mouth Café, St.Kilda

“Great Breakthroughs in Darkness”,WaxTheatre,York Street Richmond


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 “In Focus: Conversations With Eight Contemporary Artists”, ACAE Gallery

2019 “LINK” Australia China Arts Exchange (ACAE) Gallery, Canterbury – curated by Chonggang Du
2019 “2019 Haenam International SUMUK Workshop” – Haenam Cultural Arts Centre, Korea
2019 “2019 Haenam International SUMUK Workshop” – Sooyun Arts Space, Haenam, Korea

2018 “SUPPORT 18” Five Walls Projects – Footscray

2016 “The spaces are as important as the words”Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood, curated by Veronica Caven-Aldous 2016“The Commemoration”installation by Deb Bain-King atYonderArt Space,Yarraville (collaboration)

2014 “Re-writing the Image:Text as art”Town Hall Gallery-Hawthorn Arts Centre, curated by Marion Piper

2013 “My Word” Napier Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy

2012 “Where do we go from here?”Trocadero Artspace, Footscray.

2011 “After Image” Napier Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy.
2011 “New Acquisitions” St.Vincents’ Hospital Gallery, Fitzroy.

2007 Agendo Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Gardner Galleries, Richmond.
2005 VCA Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award,Vic
2005Victorian College of the Arts Graduation Exhibition.
2005 Finalist Athenaeum Club Visual Ar ts Award- Athenaeum Club Melbourne
1999 Produced book of collages titled “Monacle” for Zine Show, curated by Phil Edwards 437 Spencer Street.

1998 Studio 252 Flinders Lane Group Show


COLLECTIONS

St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne
Haengchon Cultural Art Foundation Collection- Haenam, South Korea. Sooyun Art Space Collection – Haenam, South Korea
Private collections in Australia and Europe


AWARDS AND PRIZES

2005 Finalist Athenaeum Club Visual Ar ts Award- Athenaeum Club Melbourne 2007 Finalist Agendo Art Prize- Gardner Galleries, Richmond.


RESIDENCIES

2010-2011 Artist-in-Residence at StVincents (Caritas Christi Hospice),Kew. 2015-Current Artist-in-Residence at Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne 2019 SUMUK Residency – Haenam Cultural Arts Centre, Haenam City, Korea

TV & RADIO

2019 Interview with MBC News Network, Korea
2016 Alex McCulloch Arts Show: http://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show-5-may-2016/ 2017 Alex McCulloch Arts Show: http://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show-may-24-2017/


PUBLICATIONS

THE AGE newspaper, 11/04/00 “Here’s Cheers to History”
The Melbourne Times, 03/05/00 “Riding High on the Coaster tales of History” INPRESS Magazine, 19/04/00 “Coaster Pot Art”
Beat Magazine, 10/08/11 “Strati ed Mantra”
Melbourne Weekly, 10/08/11 “Strati ed Mantra”
Beat Magazine, 20/02/13 “Chthonic System”


23-11_ACAE_Freney-Mills-7.jpg


23-11_ACAE_Freney-Mills-16.jpg


(c) 2021 ACAE Gallery- All rights reserved.