Sue Freeborough qualified in a Related Arts degree in 1986 at Chichester University which influenced her decision to study a Fine Arts degree in sculpture at Cheltenham University in 1991. Since then she has been a practicing artist completing an MA at Portsmouth University in Art Design and Media in 2002. Her work essentially refers to the body, whether…
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Sue Freeborough qualified in a Related Arts degree in 1986 at Chichester University which influenced her decision to study a Fine Arts degree in sculpture at Cheltenham University in 1991. Since then she has been a practicing artist completing an MA at Portsmouth University in Art Design and Media in 2002.
Her work essentially refers to the body, whether directly or obliquely. It is through the body that she addresses human issues such as relationships, identity and personal values.
Her explorations on these themes have brought her to an analytical deconstruction of the body, presenting a depersonalised awareness of our outer limits, our bodily containment and the spaces we inhabit. Conversely, other works investigate self image, memory and pairings through the whole body.
As a sculptor her work evolves as a construction, focusing on the task of transforming an idea into a sculptural form often from drawings or philosophical readings, and chooses a variety of materials, such as bronze, aluminium, glass or wax to reflect and enhance her ideas.
She has exhibited alongside well-known artists at Gallery Pangolin in London, Gloucestershire and abroad; in numerous group exhibitions with Art Space Portsmouth, and Catalyst Portsmouth, and has shown in open and solo exhibitions.
"One of the most compelling objects in the exhibition is Sue Freeborough's bronze 'Memory Vows' a standing female figure bristling with nails like a tribal fetish. Perhaps partly inspired by the famous Palaeolithic limestone carving known as the Willendorf Venus, Freeborough reinvents that totemic female form as a piece of contemporary ethnographica. The clenched fists and rapt facial expression suggests a mystical marshalling of bodily energy, an energy exuding from every pore and follicle." Quotation from 'Body Language' catalogue Gallery Pangolin 2005 by Tom Flynn.
