FREYA DOOLEY

A collaborative project between artist Clare Charles and I has been selected by Wales Arts International (WAI), British Council and Welsh Government for the Wales-Japan Culture Fund - part of Welsh Government led Year of Wales and Japan 2025. We will undertake a residency with AiRK in Kobe, building on networks and research established during my residency with Beppu Projects in 2020. While in Kobe, we will gather recordigns and develop new sound works, with a research focus on social and collective listening practices. Our time in Japan will incorporate studio visits and connections with artists, musicians, composers and organisations in Kobe and Osaka, towards an online broadcast connecting artists/music-creators in Wales and Japan, in Winter 2025. More info on the broadcast soon.

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Testun/with is a podcast of conversations convened by Dylan Huw and co-produced with Freya Dooley, who recorded and edited each episode. The series pairs artists and writers living in Wales to think aloud together around the intimacies and interrelations guiding their current work. This is the first public programme of Testun testun: a curatorial project organised by Dylan Huw testing new, artist-centred sites for art writing and critical vocabulary-building in Wales. This opening series has been made possible through the Jerwood New Work Fund.

Punctuated by readings and samples of recent projects, each in-depth conversation explores points of connection between the practices of two leading Wales-based artists/writers, situated within their expanded networks of collaboration, friendship, materials and influences. At the end of every conversation, we also ask the contributors to tell us about something or someone that is energising them artistically in Wales at the moment.

Five episodes feature:

1.1 Sadia Pineda Hameed + Sophie Mak-Schram

1.2 Anthony Shapland + Esyllt Angharad Lewis

1.3: Kath Ashill + Rebecca Gould

1.4: Umulkhayr Mohamed + Radha Patel (DARCH)

1.5: Manon Awst + Naomi Pearce

Forthcoming Magnetic Residency hosted by Dourven Gallery and FRAC Bretagne, in 2026.

The Magnetic Residency is a Fluxus Arts Projects joint Franco-UK initiative that brings together ten institutions to create a programme of artist residencies of 2 to 3 months each: five in France and five in the UK.

More info soon.

My work has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming Radiophrenia Festival broadcast in April 2025.

Broadcasts accross Glasgow on 87.9FM and online

24 hours a day: 7 - 20 April 2025

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RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow.  

The broadcast schedule for the 2025 edition includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live studio shows, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. For this year’s selections they were assisted by guest curator Riah Naief of Listen Gallery. Through a public engagement programme they will be working with four different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works.

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I’m delighted to have recieved support from Wales Arts International to undertake a residency at Cow House Studios, Co. Wexford, Ireland, to develop new work in May 2025.

‘I Pretend Too Much’: Special Audio Issue, Mirror Lamp Press, October 2024

Artists/ writers: Andrea Bjurström, Freya Dooley, Isadora Epstein, Edy Fung, Rachel Heavey, Sophie Robinson

ed. Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre

You can listen to the entire issue on the MLP website. It was also previously broadcast on Dublin Radio and Resonance FM.

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“This special edition brings together a collection of original works inspired by the 1950s song "The Great Pretender," originally performed by The Platters, weaving through themes of identity, imitation, and performance. Mirror Lamp Press is a digital publishing project that explores the intersection of art and literature through the newly commissioned work of artists and writers. “

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