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I Heart Home

When: 15 April – 2 August 2024
Where: Margaret Preston Gallery, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Artist: Zoe Freney

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Image: Zoe Freney, ‘Little Home’ (detail), 2023, oil on copper, 25.5 x 20cm. Image courtesy the artist.

I Heart Home

Zoe Freney
15 April – 2 August 2024

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Zoe’s art explores matricentric feminism, a feminism that centres mothers’ experiences and their work in the home, in society and culture. Zoe’s drawings and paintings presented images of a mother’s changing identity alongside dependents, children and pets. Several small paintings captured landscapes from close to Zoe’s home, places she has walked with her children, who sometimes take the source photographs for the paintings. 

Zoe is pleased to have shared these works in the Margaret Preston Gallery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Images of the complex experiences of mothers and carers are not often shown in visual culture. Zoe hoped that people can identify with aspects of these works and consider their own experience of care and caring. 

Artist Bio

Zoe Freney is a mid-career artist and academic living on Peramangk and Kaurna Country in the Adelaide Hills. She is Coordinator BVA and BVA (Honours) at Adelaide Central School of Art. Zoe’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and prizes. Her work Self with beluga (after Da Vinci) won the Prospect Portrait Prize in 2021. Her work has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Moran Prize, and finalist in the Heysen Prize, Tatiara Prize and Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize. Her work has been shown internationally at Spilt Milk Gallery in Scotland, the Stay Home Gallery in Tennessee and the Pearl Conard Gallery in Ohio. Zoe has also been published in a range of art journals and online writing platforms including Artlink and fine print. 

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Zoe Freney, 'House Dress' (detail), 2023, oil on linen, 119 x 83 cm. Image courtesy the artist.

Zoe Freney, 'Sky over Ironbank' (detail), 2023, oil on copper. Image courtesy the artist.

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Zoe Freney, 'Intimate structures (blue)' (detail), 2020. Image courtesy the artist.

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Zoe Freney, 'Family and Friends: Kali and Ava' (details), 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

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Zoe Freney, 'Sky over Ironbank' (detail), 2023, oil on copper. Image courtesy the artist.

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Zoe Freney, 'Intimate structures (blue)' (detail), 2020. Image courtesy the artist.

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Zoe Freney, 'Family and Friends: Kali and Ava' (details), 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

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