Rosanne Freak-Poli
I am here, now.
As a multi-media artist, I explore themes of social structures and human experiences. My work is often site-specific and often includes performance. I draw inspiration from Fluxus, hard-edge abstraction, and conceptual art. Through this, I have explored the embodiment of art as a lifestyle rather than art as a product. I am inspired by the theoretical discussions of Martin Creed’s questioning of “What is art?”, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s re-contextualisation of routine activities as art in Maintenance Art Manifesto (1969), and Andrea Zittel’s work How to live? and What gives life meaning?. My work has been described as having variations between extreme exhalation to dark mortality, providing a comedic quality.
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Inflation, deflation, Cost: $24,505.35 (the up-front cost of a BFA) + dinner with the artist, Dimensions Variable, e.g. 5.6m x 0.9m x 2.6m, Yellow PVC table cover, wire basket, power point timer, electrical air pump, air
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Inflation, deflation, Cost: $24,505.35 (the up-front cost of a BFA) + dinner with the artist, Dimensions Variable, e.g. 5.6m x 0.9m x 2.6m, Yellow PVC table cover, wire basket, power point timer, electrical air pump, air
Rosanne Freak-Poli, i'm just so excited i'm just so exhausted, Black and white paint, canvas; or grey paint
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Arrow(s), 5.5m x 3.4m x 0.0m, Yellow paint
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Untitled, White paint, Vinyl record cover
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne