Richard Freestone

Richard Freestone appropriates the genres and aesthetic values of popular culture to call attention to perceived hierarchies in the arts. Extracting patterns and designs from machinery, architecture, the figure and popular cultural imagery such as tattoo art and advertising, Freestone has developed a personal lexicon of signs and symbols. He also questions issues of personal ownership of visual material within the broader aesthetic field of popular culture. Incorporating multiple layers of imagery from various sources, the resulting works attempt to create a harmonious conversation between "low-brow art" and "high art.”
Born
1982	Nottingham, England
Education
2006	Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ.
2002	Foundation Certificate of Arts and Design, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ.
Solo Exhibitions
2010	Propeller, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2008	Populaire, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010	Collecting 101, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	House of Cards, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Group exhibition, The Arthouse, Christchurch, NZ.
2008	Two, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Capsule, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2007	Discography, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Rock Paper Scissors, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Richard Freestone & Kristin Perrett, New Work, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Big Heads, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	one, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	pod, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2006	Have A Ball!, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
	Fizz, Seed Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2005	Exquisite Corpse, Randolph St Gallery, Auckland, NZ.