{"title":"Derval Freeman","description":"\u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDerval Freeman \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Irish visual artist based in County Wicklow, working primarily in abstraction. Her painting practice is driven by colour and intuitive decision-making, examining how memory, lived experience, and landscape are internalised over time rather than represented directly. Through recurring structures and unresolved spatial relationships, her work explores tension, containment, and emotional pressure within abstract space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eFreeman’s work draws on long-term engagement with place and movement, producing paintings that sit between landscape and non-representation. Large colour fields are frequently interrupted or constrained, creating a sense of remembered terrain shaped by time, erosion, and psychological presence. Process remains visible, allowing imbalance and uncertainty to play an active role in the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eShe graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1996 and works full-time as an artist. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Cairde Visual, Kilkenny Arts Festival, the dlr LexIcon Municipal Gallery, and touring exhibitions in China and the UK. She has undertaken artist residencies at Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, and her work is held in private collections in Ireland and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"exhibitions\"\u003eExhibitions\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"solo-shows\"\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSolo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2023 – Wanderings, Easter Snow Gallery, Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Fingal, Co. Dublin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2021 – A Way to Equilibrium, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2018 – Solace II: Entering the Dream, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2017 – Solace I, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2007 – Urban Trail, Frame Gallery, Limerick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2026 – Carrying the Songs, Pulchri Studio Gallery and Hamilton Gallery in association with the Embassy of Ireland in the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2026 – Flare, 8 Arch Gallery, the Old Mill, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2026 – Harmony in Diversity, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by The Art Riddler)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2026 – Art in the Ballroom, Powerscourt House, Wicklow\u003cbr\u003e2025 – Art Riddler Exhibition, Dublin\u003cbr\u003e2025 – Climate Action for All (First Prize Winner), Climeaction, Cork\u003cbr\u003e2025 – The Secret of Colour and Light, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by Sahoko Blake)\u003cbr\u003e2025 – Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny Art Gallery\u003cbr\u003e2025 – Cairde Visual, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo\u003cbr\u003e2025 – 100\/50, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK\u003cbr\u003e2025 – Paint Waterford, Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford\u003cbr\u003e2024 –1st Annual, An Chead Tine, Kilkenny (Selected by Francis Tansey)\u003cbr\u003eDublin (In association with Hamilton Gallery, Sligo)\u003cbr\u003e2024 – Crosscurrents, dlr LexIcon Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire\u003cbr\u003e2024 – In Between, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by Patricia Burns)\u003cbr\u003e2024 – Europe in the Heart of Ireland, Hamilton Gallery and European Parliament Liaison Office, Dublin\u003cbr\u003e2024 – Lines of the Land, An Chead Tine Gallery, Kilkenny\u003cbr\u003e2024 – Interdependence, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by Cian McLoughlan)\u003cbr\u003e2023 – Conversation with Trees, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by Eamon Colman)\u003cbr\u003e2023 – Transience, Walters, Dún Laoghaire (selected by Carmel Benson)\u003cbr\u003e2023 – Ancestral Houses and Meditations (touring), Hamilton Gallery Sligo \/ China\u003cbr\u003e2022 – Hidden Histories, The Narrow Space Gallery, Clonmel\u003cbr\u003e2022 – St. Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (Invited)\u003cbr\u003e2022 – Bealtaine Festival (invited), Carrickahowley Gallery, USA\u003cbr\u003e2021 – Meditations of Time in Civil War, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (Invited)\u003cbr\u003e2020 – Among School Children, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (Invited)\u003cbr\u003e2020 – Eva Gore Booth, Museum of Literature, Ireland, Dublin (Invited by Hamilton Gallery,\u003cbr\u003eSligo)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAwards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2025 – First Prize, Climate Action for All, Climeaction Art Competition, Cork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResidencies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2022 – The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e2007 – The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. 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