STUDIED
1978-81 BA Hons Painting, St Martins School of Art
1981-82 MA Painting Chelsea School of Art
1982-83 Junior Fellowship Cardiff School of Art S.G.I.H.E.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1989-93 Digswell Arts Fellow
1988 Villers David Foundation Award - Italy
1988 Hertfordshire Artist in Schools Project
1987 ‘In the Making’ Herts Open (Prize-winner)
1986 Hertfordshire Artist in Schools Mural Project
1984 “ “ “ Project
1985 Eastern Arts Grant
1983 Young Artists Grant, Welsh Arts Council
1983 Boise Travelling Scholarship - USA
LECTURING
1983-2007 Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art & Design
1996-97 Visiting lecturer Nottingham Trent Fine Art
1986-96Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire/St Albans School of Art & Design
1984-86 Visiting Lecturer at Leicester School of Art
1983 - 2000 Lecture/teaching visits to many UK art schools
1982-83 Junior Fellowship Cardiff
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Komechak Art Gallery Chicago USA
Priseman Seabrook Collection UK
Falmouth Art Gallery UK
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery UK
East Contemporary Art, University Campus Suffolk UK
Rugby Art Gallery & Museum UK
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria UK
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
June 2023 'Sacred Grove' Solo exhibition at The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 ‘Murmurs from the Wide River’ Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
2019 Freya Purdue at the Edge, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport
2014 ‘Shrine Paintings’, St Marylebone Church Crypt Gallery, London
2013 Freya Purdue Paintings 2 - Letchworth Arts Centre
2011 'One Year' (solo exhibition), Letchworth Arts Centre
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Artbox.Project Palma 1, Palma Majorca
Paint Edgy, The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber
Halland Gallery, Seaview, Isle of Wight
Paradoxes, Contemporary British Painting Group show - Curator Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
2021
'A Generous Space', Hastings Contemporary @artistsupportpledge 2021/22
Nutopia, Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
‘Murmurs from the Wide River’ - Solo exhibitions at:-Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
Matthew Burrows Selects, Unit 1 Gallery, London
ArtTop10 Lockdown Exhibition, Cello Gallery, London (online + gallery)
Vitalistic Fantacies Cello Gallery, London
2020
YES/NO Contemporary British Painting (virtual exhibition)
BEEP Painting prize exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Beyond Other Horizons, Iasi Palace of Culture, Rumania
2019
Conversations in Painting 'Mountain Size', Pineapple Black Contemporary Art Space, Middlesborough
Quay Arts Open, Newport, Isle of Wight
Freya Purdue at the Edge, Solo Show, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport
AEB Cambridge Summer Open
New Painting, Norwich Cathedral Hostry Gallery
Made in Britain Artists of the 21st Century: Priseman Seabrook Collection, National Gallery of Poland, Gdansk
Contemporary British Painting: 33 Painters, Hostry, Norwich
‘Point of View’ Randan Stables Gallery, Hay on Wye
‘Ennui’ Paintings by Freya Purdue & Marius von Brasch, APT Gallery, London
2018
www.artistsinfo.co.uk - Global Artist Guide (prizewinner) YouTube - Artists Info Contemporary Art Fair 2018
New Painting: Contemporary British Painting: St Marylebone Crypt Gallery, London
50 under 50: Unit 6 Studio Gallery, Richmond, N. Yorkshire
2019
October - 'Freya Purdue at the Edge' Solo Show, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport
AEB Cambridge Open, Cambridge
New Painting, Norwich Cathedral Hostry
'Point of View' Randan Stables Gallery, Hay on Wye
'Made in Britain', Priseman Seabrook Collection, National Gallery of Poland, Gdansk
‘Ennui’ Paintings by Freya Purdue & Marius von Brasch, APT Gallery, London
Contemporaty British Painting, an exhibition of 34 painters, Hostry Norwich Cathedral
2017
China: Priseman Seabrook Collection touring exhibition Sept - Dec
Oct-Nov Jiangsu Arts & Craft Museum, Nanjing
Nov-Dec Artall Nanjing, Jiangsu Province
Dec-Jan Tianjing Academy Fine Arts Museum
Sept - Jan Testcard P: Contemporary British Painting: St Marylebone Crypt Gallery, London
China: Priseman Seabrook Collection touring exhibition July - Dec
July - Yantai Art Museum, China
July - Open Studios, Isle of Wight
July - Anything Goes? Bermondsey Project Space, London
June - Paintings in Hospitals, CBP show, Menier Gallery, London
May - June - Contemporary Masters from the East of England, The Cut, Halesworth
April - Colour a Kind of Bliss, Curated by Freya Purdue and Lucy Cox, Marylebone Church Crypt Gallery, London
2016
Dec - Jan 17 - 30 x 30 x 34, Marylebone Crypt Gallery, London
August - October Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition, 40 Painters, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight (Curator)
2015
Nov - Jan 2016 - Contemporary British Painters, 34 leading British painters, St Marylebone Church Crypt, London
Sept - Oct - SE9 Container Gallery London
April - Stations of the Cross, Brentwood Cathedral
2014
Dec - Contemporary British Painters Group Exhibition, St Marylebone Church Crypt, London
Nov - @paintbritain 45 Contemporary Painters, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich
Nov - Contemporary British Painting, Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery
Nov - Freya Purdue ‘Shrine Paintings’, (solo show) St Marylebone Church Crypt Gallery, London
May - Freya Purdue Paintings 2 (solo show) - Letchworth Arts Centre
Feb - Swindon Museum & Art Gallery - Abstract Painting
2013
Dec - Scope, Miami Beach, International Contemporary Art Show
Nov/Dec - Contemporary British Painters(group show)
Sep/Oct - East Contemporary Art (collection 21st Centurary Practice) University Campus Suffolk
2012
Studio Exhibition
2011
'One Year' (solo exhibition), Letchworth Arts Centre
2010
Harmony, Ratio and the Cosmos, Yarrow Gallery, Oundle International Festival
2009
UWE Gallery ‘Time and Being’ (curated research exhibition)
2005
Rural/Central, London College 2005of Fashion Gallery
2002
Through the Surface, Galeria Stara Bwa, Lublin, Poland
1999
Heffers Gallery Cambridge
1998
Charles Barker ArtNet London
1997
Business Link ArtNet London
1996
Open Studios Letchworth Garden City
EXHIBITIONS
1994
‘Contemporary Women Artists’ in Collaboration with W.A.S.L.Coventry Gallery. London
‘Reclaiming the MADONNA’ (Arts Council Travelling Exhibition - The Economist Tower, Ucheldre Centre Anglesey, St David’s Hall Cardiff
1993
‘Reclaiming the MADONNA’ Usher Gallery Lincoln
Installation of Paintings, New Barnfield Public Library
Group Show Chelsea
Digswell Arts Exhibition
1992
New Work, Crypt Gallery London
Recent Works on Paper, Margaret Harvey Gallery
Digswell Arts Exhibition
1991
‘Empyrean’ (Travelling exhibition in India) Vimonisha Gallery
Madras, Sir J.J. School of Art
Bombay Artists Centre
L.T.G. Gallery New Delhi
Drawing Exhibition Margaret Harvey Gallery
1990
Digswell Arts Exhibition
Pyramid Gallery London
‘New Directions’ Maltings Gallery St Albans
Digswell Arts Exhibition
1989
Digswell Arts Exhibition
1988
Death: A Contemporary Vision, Kettles Yard Cambridge
Creaser Gallery London Summer Exhibition
1987
Ways of Seeing’ travelling exhibition Wales
Young staff exhibition Chelsea S.O.A.
1986
‘In the Making’ Herts Open (Prize-winner)
Leicestershire Exhibition
Visual Arts Collective Luton
1985
'Pacesetters V' Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
Young Artists II Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery
‘Artmarket’ Contemporary Arts Society
’10 Artists’ St Martins School of Art
1984
‘Underwater’ Plymouth Arts Centre
‘Drawings for All’ Gainsborough’s House Sudbury
Industrial Sponsors Warwick Arts Trust
New Work Chelsea School of Art
Artists at Work Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery
1983
'Stroke, Line & Figure' Gimple Fils London
'Voices of Awen', Fellowship exhibition, Cardiff School of Art
Painting 83 Warwick Arts Trust
1982
'Christies Inaugural' 1982 London
'East Anglian Artists' Kettles Yard Cambridge
'MA Drawings' Chapter 2 Gallery London
'The Art of Giving' Oriel Gallery Cardiff
1981
‘5 Young Artists Margaret Harvey Gallery
BIBLOGRABPHY
1982 September - Eastword ‘East Anglian Artists’
1983/84 Winter - Steve Nelson, Link Magazine ‘Voices of Awen’
1983 October - Clare Rowe, Aspects ‘Voices of Awen’
1983 Issue No.44 - Robert Ayers Artscibe ‘Painting 83’
1984 24th July - Waldermer Januszczak, Guardian ‘Underwater’
1984 29th August - John Olney, Guardian
1991 27th February - Independent Bombay ‘Mystic Abstracts’
1991 5th April - The Economic Times New Delhi ‘Abstract Shailija Nair, Creations of Harmony’
1991 29th March - Bhoosha, Evening News (New Delhi) ‘Lyrical Forms’
2002 10th Nov - Through the Surface Catalogue – ISBN83-88711-31-38 Lublin, Poland
2011 - ‘One Year’ catalogue
2015 Priseman Seabrook collection of 21st Century British Painting, Seabrook Press ISBN 9781505537239
2016 Contemporary British Painting, Summer Exhibition Catalogue ISBN981534870123
2017 Contemporary Masters from Britain, Seabrook Press (China tour)
ISBN 9781543281620
2019 Ennui Refigured Freya Purdue & Marius von Brasch ISBN 9781999997656
2019 Made in Britain, Artists of the 21st Century (Poland) ISBN 978-83-63185-90-9
2019 WOMEN, Inspiring Quotes & Artistic Responses, Nicola & Andy Wild
ISBN 978-1-9-9163232-0-9
2020 Beyond Other Horizons, ISBN 978-606-8547-43-5
2022 Paradoxes Catalogue ISBN (tbc)
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