Abi Freckleton

Abi Freckleton studied BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and MA Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art where she was the recipient of the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Her work has been shown in galleries across the UK, including a recent solo show curated by Kristian Day at Q&C Gallery in Cambridge which featured works emerging from an encounter with a puddle in a pine forest in Bedfordshire, as well as recent experiments that incorporated glass and found metal elements.

Freckleton’s works were selected alongside Olivia Bax and Lisa Milroy, by curators Yuki Miyaki and Paul Carey-Kent, for the exhibition ‘Haiku’ at White Conduit Projects, London and her work has been shown across the UK including at Kingsgate Project Space, The NewBridge Project, MK Gallery, Exeter Pheonix, Broadway Gallery and at Mint Gallery as part of London Design Festival. Two of Freckleton’s works, ‘Just sprung ground’ and ‘All the waves before’, were recently selected from over 600 entries around the world for the prestigious Franz Project Scholarship Prize for excellence in works using porcelain.

Centered on the temporal aspects of materiality, Abi Freckleton uses everyday encounters between beings and spaces as anchor points in her research. Taking material, images, and objects from these moments, she uses heat-mediated processes to extract unexpected properties. The remnant shards, powders, and fluids are then re-aggregated in the kiln, becoming tentatively fused piles of rubble – not quite objects, but no longer raw matter.

Partially contained by smooth edges but revealing wild disorder in their chaotic interiors, they bare the marks of human constraint and construction alongside the entropic forces of nature. Each work is a monument to a specific moment but also a monument to time and space and matter, and their ongoing entanglement.

Visit Abi Freckleton’s website and Instagram page.