Freya Yeates


Selected Projects (2020-2025)


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Facilitation:
MYCELIUM CARDS, SYLLABUS VIII (2025)





Facilitation cards for Syllabus artist learning programme, Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Art Exchange, PS2, Spike Island, Site Gallery, and Studio Voltaire. 

Syllabus is a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme that supports ten artists across ten months. Syllabus offers time for artists from across the UK to discuss ideas, work, life and approaches to practice, while building community and taking risks. Syllabus creates an environment of mutual learning and exchange between the artists that is responsive to each cohort. 


More information about the Syllabus Programme here.

Editorial Consultant: 

just above the tear duct on each side Dir. Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay (2024)








During the 1950s, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospital use globally. Using archival documents, filmmakers Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay look critically at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.



Official Selection: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) 2025 - UK premiere; Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere .



Facilitator/External Evaluator:

ICA CREATIVES (2025)




Images: Participants at “TresspassTakeover,” August 2025 (right) & feedback cards Term 2 Evaluation Workshop, March 2025 (left).



I was invited by the ICA’s Talks and Learning to help create and embed feedback loops between the programming teams and communities they work with. As part of this project, I designed a series of workshops and produced a case study evaluation for the ICA Creatives* youth learning programme. Both the workshops and subsequent reporting took a relational approach to evaluation, seeking to amplify the needs of young people and centre their voices within the programme’s ongoing evolution.


*ICA Creatives is the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ core youth programme, offering free, artist-led workshops for 60 young people aged 16–30 who have faced barriers to professional access in the art sector.


See the ICA’s website for more info.


Writing: 
TOWARD THE LIVING LIGHT, 
A RESPONSE TO NATASHA V. MOODY at SEGAR GALLERY (2024)



Natasha Moody, Chemia (2024): Steel, projection, copper sulphate solution, plaster, glass, amber, epoxy resin, rowan berries, brass cast bluebells, and leaded glass.


I was invited by artist Natasha V. Moody to produce a written response to her Solo Exhibition THE LIVING LIGHT OF OTHERWORLDS at SEAGER Gallery in 2024. 


The text is available to read here.


Publishing:

It All Starts With a Thread: ZINE LIBRARY (2023-24)




The Giving Voice To publication was included in a curated Zine Library as part of It All Starts With a Thread exhibition (18 August 2023 - 14 January 2024) at Whitechaple Gallery.



It All Starts With a Thread was curated by Caroline Ip, Dearbhla Hanney, Erin Saunders, Eva Williams, Jane Ross, Melika Rafiei, Nastia Svarevska, Nicola Cosford, Rebecca Russell and Yulia i.


Curatorial:


HYDRO FUTURES/ MEMORY ECOLOGIES SEMINAR PRODUCER (2023)








Hydro Futures / Memory Ecologies is an offering that prompts a close listening to water’s retellings. The invited speakers bring together conversations about the mythical, political and personal value of water, as we ourselves connect across time and (non)place throughout the seminar series. 

Hosted by The Institute for Postnatural Studies and Rhubaba Gallery & Studios, the speakers of this seminar series considered the influence of Afrofuturism and Black Geographies on their work in the fields of visual art, poetry, literature, queer and gender studies, and psychotherapy.






Speaker included: Deborah Jack, Clementine E. Burnley, Rinaldo Walcott, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Chan Fagan - Clarke.


For more Infomation see the Institute for Postnatural Studies website



Curatorial: 
GRIEF OFFERINGS (END OF) LIFE WISHES (2023)

An audio transmission and transcript from Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández.




 
Image: “grief tea brewing,” by Emilia Beatrix (2023):  a close-up colour photograph of soft magenta rose petals and crunchy green hawthorn leaves soaking...ready to strain, drink and soothe.



An audio transmission and transcript from Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández. The artists use the theme of “end of life wishes” as a starting point to share ways we want to care, mourn, live and resist in the current climate, with a focus on mental health and disability justice.


The chat is interspersed with poems as “grief offerings” by Scotland-based artists Nat Raha, Jeda Pearl and Andrés N. Ordorica. The sound was mixed and mastered by Claude Nouk.
 


Greif Offerings (End of) Life Wishes is availble to listen here

PDF transcript with design elements and formatting: grief-offerings-audio-transmission-pdf-transcript.pdf

Docx transcript as text-only (no formatting): transcript as text-only
PDF list of resources mentioned in and related to the conversation: grief-offerings-resources.docx.pdf


Publishing/Design:
GIVING VOICE TO: PARADISE (2022)







150 x 210mm, 32 pages, Colour printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2022

Published as part of Fruitmarket's DIY Youth Engagement Programme, Giving Voice To: Paradise was developed as a response to Jyll Bradley's Pardes. I designed and produced this zine with artist facilitators India Boxall and Niamh Moloney of M.U.C.K. (Must Use Critical Knowledge) and participants Nina Watt, Bea Vale, James Vale, Ammi Vale, and Owen Watt's words, images, and ideas.

Published by Fruitmarket Gallery (2022).


To purchase please visit Good Press (Glasgow), Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop (Edinburgh), or contact me at Yeatesfreya98 @ gmail . com


Curatorial:
COMMISSIONING ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE:
LUX SCOTLAND RESOURCE (2022)




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Curators Eoin Dara, Ellen Grieg and the committee of Rhubaba Gallery and Studios respond to five set questions on the subject of ​‘commissioning artists’ moving image’. 



  1. How do you and your organisation make decisions about which artists are invited to make new work with you?
  2. How much does online research inform how you select artists for your programme?
  3. How do you approach working with an artist on a new commission of moving image work?
  4. Within what range of fees are artists paid for new commissions of moving image work that are presented in a gallery context and are these different from fees for work that primarily exists online?
  5. How might artists build new relationships with curators, especially if they aren’t able to meet in person?


The resource is available to read here, or can be listened to via the link above.


Curatorial: 
CARE, RESISTANCE... JOY! (2022-2023)







Care, Resistance... Joy! was a public engagement programme at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios. This year-long project (2021-22) included a series of public workshops, screenings, talks, publications, and artist co-commissions which considered structures of care, power, and histories of (queer, disabled, environmentalist, and anticolonial) community action whilst centring joy as an act of resistance through mutual-aid and creative practices.





Taking place over the spring and summer of 2022, the programme was led by selected artists and facilitators: Sunanda Mesquita, Ella Yolande, The Institute for Postnatural Studies, Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland, and Etzali Hernández.


Events: Tapping into Deocolnial Joy an online workshop led by Sunanda Mesquita; Threads of Care a banner making workshop led by Ella Yolande at St Margarate’s House; a two-part weekend workshop Desireable Future, Hybrid Bodies led by The Institute for Postnatural Studies at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Holyrood Park; an audio transmission, Greif Offerings (End of) Life Wishes led by Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland, and Etzali Hernández with contributions by poets Nat Raha, Jeda Pearl and Andrés N. Ordorica.