FREYA DOOLEY

My work has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming Radiophenia Festival broadcast in April 2025.

Broadcasts accross Glasgow on 87.9FM and online

24 hours a day: 7 - 20 April 2025

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RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow.  

The broadcast schedule for the 2025 edition includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live studio shows, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. For this year’s selections they were assisted by guest curator Riah Naief of Listen Gallery. Through a public engagement programme they will be working with four different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works.

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I’m delighted to have recieved support from Wales Arts International to undertake a residency at Cow House Studios, Co. Wexford, Ireland, to develop new work in May 2025.

‘I Pretend Too Much’: Special Audio Issue, Mirror Lamp Press, October 2024

Artists/ writers: Andrea Bjurström, Freya Dooley, Isadora Epstein, Edy Fung, Rachel Heavey, Sophie Robinson

ed. Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre

You can listen to the entire issue on the MLP website. It was also previously broadcast on Dublin Radio and Resonance FM.

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“This special edition brings together a collection of original works inspired by the 1950s song "The Great Pretender," originally performed by The Platters, weaving through themes of identity, imitation, and performance. Mirror Lamp Press is a digital publishing project that explores the intersection of art and literature through the newly commissioned work of artists and writers. “

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Solo exhibition, Site Gallery, Sheffield

False Note comprises a suite of interconnected works which broadly explore themes of replacement, communication and connection. The narratives in the work relate to both the musical and idiomatic meanings of this term ‘False Note‘: miscommunications, untruths, insincerity, and inconsistencies. The soundtrack composition is informed by research in Rome in post-synchronised sound and sonic artifice in European cinema.

A live performance will close the exhibition, supported by PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music. More to be announced.

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Really pleased to have recieved support from PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music for the development of a live score performance and companion EP as part of False Note at Site Gallery, Sheffield. More info about the project will be announced soon.

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy

Curated by Magic Lantern Film Festival (Maria Alicata, Adrienne Drake and Ilaria Gianni)

My sound installation ‘Useless and Precious’ 2023 is part of this screening curated by Magic Lantern Film Festival, as part of the exhibition, Rome, a Portrait: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes.

Artists: Camille Aleña, Maeve Brennan, Andrea Büttner, Michel Couturier, Freya Dooley, Oona Grimes, Clemens von Wedemeyer

Magic Lantern Film Festival is a biannual thematic investigation into the interstice between visual art and cinema in Rome.