She and her husband, Martin Freney, have also built Australia’s first council-approved Earthship.
[1] As an arts writer, she has written several catalogue essays and reviews (see Bibliography) and in 2017, she was one of four artists (including Daniel Connell) who travelled to India as part of a South Australian Government Arts Engagement Program.
[4] Together, they built a strawbale house[4] and followed this by building Australia’s first council-approved Earthship,[5] Earthship Ironbank, which they rent out as a B&B.
Freney is a painter whose paintings examine motherhood and often feature herself as model, as seen in the group exhibition, Good Mother,[6] her solo exhibition, Motherology,[7] and the group exhibition, Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood at Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University (2018).
[12] Freney was also a joint winner of the inaugural Queen of Clubs Art Prize from Peter Lehmann Wines in 2000.