Arriving
Arriving

Painting

Arriving

𝘈𝘳𝘳π˜ͺ𝘷π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨 traces the wood element at its most vital β€” the exuberant, unforced emergence that pulls life out of winter and into form. The composition does not depict arrival as destination but as orientation. Wood carries the quality of... More

Artist Statement
Artist Statement

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Artist Statement

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Canopy
Canopy

Painting

Canopy

𝘊𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘺 attends to the journey itself β€” not as passage from one place to another, but as the site where all elements converge. Light fractures through canopy and falls as shadow onto ground, each patch a fleeting negotiation between wood and... More

Dandelion (a lot to offer)
Dandelion (a lot to offer)

Painting

Dandelion (a lot to offer)

π˜‹π˜’π˜―π˜₯𝘦𝘭π˜ͺ𝘰𝘯 (𝘒 𝘭𝘰𝘡 𝘡𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳) depicts the near-cosmopolitan organism that has become a universal core memory while critiquing the idea of presence and control. Viewed from ground level, the composition implicates the colonial... More

Installation View
Installation View

Installation

Installation View

Eleven paintings are arranged as an ascending oval spiral, resisting the horizontal linearity of conventional gallery presentation. The two larger gestural works anchor the composition, while smaller paintings are positioned to converse with one... More

Universal Flux 1 (Ascending)
Universal Flux 1 (Ascending)

Painting

Universal Flux 1 (Ascending)

Growth is not linear.

Universal Flux 2 (Spilling Over)
Universal Flux 2 (Spilling Over)

Painting

Universal Flux 2 (Spilling Over)

Energy resists containment. In this painting, swirling orbital forms dissolve at their edges, spilling beyond any fixed boundary β€” rendering not a moment captured, but a condition of constant transformation. The copper and earth tones move through... More

Universal Flux 3 (Family)
Universal Flux 3 (Family)

Painting

Universal Flux 3 (Family)

This work was completed in March, as the violence continued, I thought a lot about the separation and reunion of families.

Universal Flux 4 (Becoming)
Universal Flux 4 (Becoming)

Painting

Universal Flux 4 (Becoming)

in this moment

Votive
Votive

Painting

Votive

𝘝𝘰𝘡π˜ͺ𝘷𝘦 considers the metal element as both force and offering β€” order and chaos held in a single falling gesture. Coins descend through water, caught in the directionality of gravity yet suspended in paint, neither arrived nor lost. Across... More

Wild
Wild

Painting

Wild

𝘞π˜ͺ𝘭π˜₯ is a sister to Dandelion (a lot to offer), returning to the ground level but shifting attention from root to stem. This is the fire phase, the most active of the five transformations: growth that does not proceed in straight lines but... More

Wishing Fountain
Wishing Fountain

Painting

Wishing Fountain

𝘞π˜ͺ𝘴𝘩π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘡𝘒π˜ͺ𝘯 captures the charged instant of water mid-flight β€” neither falling nor risen, suspended at the threshold of its own turning. Water has carried liminal meaning across millennia: a boundary between worlds, a medium for... More

Wrapped
Wrapped

Painting

Wrapped

Wrapped reads simultaneously as firework, flower, and star. It captures the fire element at its absolute peak β€” the moment of full bloom, maximum luminosity, total expenditure of energy. Across cultures, fire at its most spectacular is also fire at... More

Work by

Freda Tan

Painter

β€œResponding to current global crises and the violences of displacement, this body of work captures intentional moments of simultaneous presence and honours the expansive relationality that makes us...” [More]