Freedom Wilson

Freedom Wilson is a visual artist and printmaker investigating plant communities and bush habitats; their evolution, recent changes and threats. Her prints visualise landscapes as plantscapes, studying ecological relationships at a micro scale integral for expansive areas of natural wilderness to thrive.

She researches with hiking boots on, drawing at scale on location, and later back in studio transforming plant studies into heroic macro scale images for printmaking processes. Depth of colour is built up using multiple layers of print, acknowledging the highly complex layers of vegetation and fungi networks critical for a healthy ecosystem.

Freedom live’s and works in the Blue Mountains, with extensive inspiration growing within the beautiful valleys and plateaus just beyond her doorstep. Her printmaking process is both an informative and emotive study of Australia’s magnificent bush environment, opening a conversation about the urgency for regeneration, protection and preservation of our natural heritage.