FREYA TEWELDE
b. 1977, EritreaFreya Tewelde is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose psychospiritual practice is rooted in painting and abstraction. She explores memory, ritual, and transformation through layered mark-making and ancestral inquiry.
Born in Asmara, Eritrea and raised in Saudi Arabia, Freya draws on her diasporic experience, ancestral heritage, and background in the social sciences to examine the emotional and spiritual dimensions of identity and healing. Her work weaves together archival imagery, cosmic symbolism, and intuitive gestures to create spaces that are both intimate and expansive.
She is currently developing new bodies of work that explore ecological memory, cultural symbolism, and spiritual autonomy.
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