Freda Teamay is an emerging Indigenous Artist from Maruku Arts, Mutijulu Community, Northern Territory.
Freda Teamay is based in the Mutitijula Community at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park where she and her family are involved in land management. Her 'Home Country' is Malara and she is following the tradition of her artist father, Malya Teamay, and mother Awalari Teamay.
Freda Teamay has been exhibiting with Maruku Arts at Artsite Galleries since 2018.
Freda Teamay is a a young emerging Anangu artist and contemporary Tjanpi Desert weaver who has exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia along side Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches in 2016-2017.
"Sappers & Shrapnel also reminds us that conflict occurs in broader contexts than theatres of war. The Tjanpi Desert Weavers (Rene Wanuny Kulitja, Judy Ukampari Trigger, Erica Ikungka Shorty, Lucille Armstrong, Mary Katajuku Pan, Janet Inyika, Niningka Lewis and Freda Teamay) use camouflage military garments for Tjituru-tjituru, 2016, evoking the enduring anxiety of the dispossessed."
Zoe Freney, Preview (Article) Art Guide, 9 November 2016. (https://artguide.com.au/both-diggers-and-artists-turn-conflict-into-art)
Freda Teamay's father, Malya Teamay, is well-known artist, Board Member and Spokesperson for the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
Malya has recently passed on to Freda the right to paint his 'Broken Law Story' about the impact colonisation has had on traditional culture and the way forward to reconciliation.
2021 |
NGURA (Home Country), Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW. |
2020, 19 |
Collectors' Choice, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW. |
2020 |
WALKA, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW. |
2019 |
Artists From The Central Desert: Mutitjulu, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW. |
2021 |
Kunturu Kulini ~ Heart Listening, Artsite Galleries, Sydney, NSW. |
2017, 16 |
Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA |
Finding the Heart of the Nation ~ Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth: Thomas Mayor,2019. ISBN: 9781741176728, Pub: Hardie Grant, Australia. Image: Page 13. |