ART/CRUSH :: Marc de Jong & Danielle Freakley
5.30pm Thurs 15 May
Join Marc de Jong and Danielle Freakley as they talk about all manner of things including their arts' practice. A series of talks matchmaking local artists with someone who inspires them from outside the region. An exciting exchange of ideas about the chemistry of creativity.
Danielle Freakley is currently in residence at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) and is an Australian/Seychellois Artist working in Performance, Sculpture, Interactive Installation, Drawing, Sound and Text. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in various Biennials, Triennials, National Galleries, State Galleries, Contemporary Art Spaces, Kitchen Floors, Snake Temples, Ski Slopes, Theme Parks, Bins, Beaches, Train Station Toilets and Graves.
Most of Freakley's interventionist performances often involve her developing an ability/disability with the public in daily life. In her most recent performance Freakley acts as an 'Imaginary Friend' to chosen people whom she comes across. Her performance The Quote Generator allowed her to speak in quotations with references for a few years.
Marc de Jong, born in Zurich Switzerland claims the digital pixel as his own by transposing the immaterial into a hand made dot in the traditional medium of oil painting. His paintings appropriate a range of images collected from the internet, television and newspapers. As a graffiti and stencil artist in his own right, the back of his canvases, covered with stencils and stickers, reveals his artistic double life.
Solo exhibitions include Marc De Jong New Works, Spacement gallery, Melbourne (2005), Mad Max Paintings, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (2004) and More Readvertising, Revolver upstairs, Melbourne (2001). Recent group exhibitions include Space Invaders, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2010), The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Victoria (2009) and Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW (2006). De Jong has been exhibited as a finalist at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, for the Archibald Prize (2010), the Sulman Prize (2009) and the Wynne Prize (2008).
Supported by Linneaus Estate, Byron Bay 
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