Art Education:
2004-5 Graduate Certificate in Multimedia
Swinburne University
2002 Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment
Box Hill TAFE
1998 Graduate Diploma (Honours) - Visual Arts - Monash University
High Distinctions
1995 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne
First Class Honours
1992-4 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Monash University
Major - Painting, Sub Majors - Photography & Printmaking
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Yering Art Gallery
Solo Exhibition – Landscapes – “Western Synthesis”
2019 Yering Art Gallery
Solo Exhibition – Landscapes – West MacDonnell Ranges & The Centre
The Waterwheel Gallery – Warburton
Solo Exhibition – Landscapes – Selected works from Kakadu & The Kimberley
2017- 18 Yering Art Gallery
Solo Exhibition – Landscapes – Kakadu & The Kimberley
2013 George Woods Gallery – Yarra Valley Grammar
Solo Exhibition – Landscapes – Flinders Ranges
2005 Upper Yarra Arts Centre
Solo Exhibition – Portraiture and Landscape
1995 Monash Switchback Gallery
Solo Exhibition - Contemporary Portraiture & Landscape
Group Exhibitions:
2019 Mirage Gallery
Group Exhibition – 21 Landscape Artists
Hillary Boat Harbour Perth
2010 Hermitage Country Club – Group Exhibition – Yarra Valley Arts
1997 Upper Yarra Arts Centre
Group Exhibition – Printmaking & Photography
Group Exhibition – Switchback Gallery, Monash University 1995.
Publications:
Media & Publications
Water Wheel Gallery – www.eventfinder.com.au/kakadu-the-kimberley/warburton
Yarra Valley Arts – www.yarravalleyarts.org.au/steve-freestone
Instagram - @stevefreestoneart – Opening speech – Yering Art Gallery
Art Almanac – Dec/Jan 2017-18 Page 118
Art Guide – March/April 2019 Page 145
Art Almanac – April 2019 Page 97
Upper Yarra Mail – 19th March 2019
Yarra Valley Grammar –The Link - Issue No58, Page 12
Instagram - @stevefreestoneart
Facebook – stevefreestoneart
Gallery Representations:
Mirage Gallery, Perth,WA
‘Resulting from a seamless convergence of poetic vision and technical mastery, the transporting landscape works of Steve Freestone draw viewers into the mythology of some of Australia’s most prehistoric and enigmatic regions, where order and harmony stand opposed to chaos and discord, where poetry wrestles with concept, form withes in folds of space, while contrasting yet complementary hues produce a frisson of vibrating energy across the field of view. Freestone’s complex and many layered creative process is informed by a life devoted to the arts. His current works, which smoothly combine figurative composition and planes of abstraction, are influenced in part by abstract expressionist painters Hans Hofmann and Richard Diebenkorn, both masters of colour. Freestone’s thoughtful labours in the realm of colour achieve their vindication when the initial emotion evoked by the landscape re-emerges through the painting, enabling reconnection with truths revealed while engaging with a place. Driven by a strong spiritual connection to Australia’s deserts, rivers and gorges, Freestone’s artistic journey unfolds on canvas towards an ever deeper and more meaningful relationship with the land.’
Dr Ewen Jarvis, Curator Yering Station Art Gallery.
‘Freestone is a renowned Australian outback artist’ Mark Boyle, Director, Mirage Gallery, Perth, WA.
