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Freya Mears is a London based artist specialising in printmaking, ceramics and painting.
She has recently completed an Art Foundation Diploma at City Lit in London.
She has a particular interest in social practice, representing queer spaces and the art of grief.
In 2024 she graduated from the Universtiy of Bristol with a degree in Liberal Arts.
In 2021 she completed an Art Foundation Diploma (Distinction) at City and Guilds of London Art School.
She wants to spend her life creating, educating, and collaborating.
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Founded: September 2001
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My latest print work explores fantastical mythologies and queer symbolism, depicting surreal landscapes inhabited by hybrid human-animal figures that evoke enigmatic yet familiar narratives.
Linocut
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100 Horses Dancing/2026
84.1 x 59.4 cm
Linocut on Newsprint
This large-scale print was inspired by Getting Killed (2025), the indie rock album by the New York–based band Geese. Influenced by the album's angst-filled experimental sound and evocative imagery, the print translates its raw energy and atmosphere into linocut.
‘Like a Sailor in a Big Green Boat. Like a Sailor in a Big Green Coat.’
Lyrics from Au PaysDu Cocaine![]()
The Crossing/202631 × 41 cm (Kozo paper)
4-layer reduction linocut on Kozo Paper
The Crossing/2026
Filthy Lucre Greening
These prints were developed in collaboration with the book launch of Ian Tucknott’s Filthy Lucre Greening poetry collection.
I read the manuscript and developed my own responses. Ian was incredibly generous in that he asked not for illustrations but to treat his collection as something I could interpret and take in my own direction. I selected certain lines and images and developed digital collages, which then evolved into monoprints, and ultimately into a series of reduction linocuts.
Returning to Myself /2026
Printed area: 30.5 x 40.5cm
4-layer reduction linocut on Kozo paper
A longing for the sea and its shorelines, and a search for queer selfhood and belonging.
Printed area: 30.5 x 40.5cm
4-layer reduction linocut on Kozo paper
A longing for the sea and its shorelines, and a search for queer selfhood and belonging.
Baby Bird /2026
Printed area: 30.5 x 40.5cm
4-layer reduction linocut on Japanese Yuki Paper
Printed area: 30.5 x 40.5cm
4-layer reduction linocut on Japanese Yuki Paper
The work draws particularly on Ian’s references to the sea and to birds. ‘Eternity aches over the static of the sea’ and ‘an unreachable baby bird scattering in the attic’. The sea acts as a silent witness to shifting stages of the self, while the birds symbolise grief, memory, and dreaming.
The reduction linocut process relies on layering and destruction. Each colour is a layer, carved and printed in sequence from a single block, with the previous surface partially destroyed at every stage.
Monoprints
