BIOGRAPHY

At 16 years old, Frimodig won a scholarship to Japan to learn about woodblock printmaking.
Frimodig questions the validity of a life in art because how can someone measure the use of art? Nothing else drives her. Her practice as a print-based artist is her instrument in the world. It is also her dilemma. This is the emotive force behind Frimodig’s creative and academic practice.
Focussing on human rights and sustainability, her work is a moral stance interlinking relationships, community, context and social outreach with creativity and craftsmanship, together with an individual vision.
Frimodig is connected to society and printmaking in complex and various ways. Starting at the margins, the practice is a journey home only to prompt her to set out again. The print that she develops, collaborating with people, scraping down to a shared meaning to mark its thought onto an etching plate of her own making, helps bring print back into the wider community and the institutions, to continue a dialogue together.

Scholarships and research grants in visual arts and humanities studies including:
2016 Tesco’s Bags for Change with Kentish Town Improvement Fund.
2015 -17 20 Costal Stations Air A-N and North Norway Cultural Council, Norway 2013 Swedish Government Hanaholmen Artist Award, Swedish Cultural Centre In Helsinki, Finland 2010 Awards for the Arts, The British Arts Council for Littoral Group Show 2009 Winner of Brent’s Wall of Resistance Community Art 2008 Awards for the Arts, The British Arts Council for Puzzle Project at Cricklewood Community Centre 2002 The Clerkenwell Green Association Business Support Grant 2002 – 2004 London Arts Agency Ad Hoc Grant
Recipient of University of Kansas University Scholar, and The Sweden-America Foundation Scholarship

ARTIST’S RESCIDENCY
2016
SEANSE Center for Artistic Production, Volda University College, Norway
Outotsu Printmaking Studio,Nishinomiya Osaka, Japan
2015-16
20 Costal Stations Air A-N and Sogn and Fjordane Museum of Art, Norway 2012 NIDA/SHARE Artistic Research Writing at Doctoral Level, Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuania 2008 AKI with UWE, Borders of Perception, Enschede , Holland
Represented in the permanent collections of Penang State Art Gallery in Malaysia, Library of Alexandria in Egypt, Brooklyn Museum of Art in NYC, Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and Silpakorn University in Bangkok.