Freya Wysocki

Freya Wysocki works across textiles, sculpture, and installation, with a visual arts practice that uses humour and absurdity to encourage the use of art as a tool for social change. Wysocki is influenced by cartoons, folklore and the mundane. With an off-kilter sense of urgency, they use materials such as drawing, papier mache and rug making to build worlds that radiate joy through an uncanny and playfully queer lens.

Working with their chosen materials Wysocki collaborates with community groups, protest campaigns, artists and galleries to facilitate banner-making and sculptural workshops that encourage people to use their imagination as a political space, connect with materiality, learn new skills and celebrate mistakes.

Wysocki graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2018 when they were awarded The Graduate Art Prize. They are based at Paradise Works, an artist’s studio and exhibition space on the Salford Manchester border.