Freya Hollingbery
Freya is an artist based in London and Somerset who uses recycled bottletops to create artworks that represent the stories and paths of our lives.
If you are interested in Freya’s work please contact Trix Mendez at Outside the Zone Gallery (otzgallery@gmail.com)
Artist Statement
Freya’s art explores the circularity of life through constructing interconnected patterns of bottletops. The source of her work stems from the origins and life cycles of each individual bottletop.
Within each piece are ‘layers’ of interest depending on the proximity of the viewer to the art. On examining her work from afar, due to the bottletop’s hues, the viewer sees evolving colour tones. The dynamic obsolete space behind the bottletops is also purposely coloured to add subtle tonal effects to compliment the bottletops in the foreground. Up close, the work transforms as each bottletop has the ability to evoke unique memories for the viewer, through triggering an experience or connection from the past in relation to that bottletop and a moment of its life cycle. In addition to this, the imagery and design on each bottletop contributes to a sense of ‘art within art,’ and creates scope for the mind to deeper explore each piece.
The final touch to her work is that every piece has a moment of deception. One bottletop's orientation is flipped in relation to its relative circular or linear collective. Freya uses this deliberate abnormality to portray the imperfections of our existence in today’s online society, and how reality is not always what it seems... See if you can find it!
Biography
Freya has an honours degree for History of Art from the University of Bristol from 2017
Exhibition History
Solo Exhibition: ‘The Kaleidoscope collection’ December 2017
Hove Artists Open House (May 2018); SONY music sustainable event (December 2019); Quadriptych Street Art piece in London’s Shoreditch (July 2020)
