ALEXI FREEMAN

To help celebrate IWD, my profile piece on the inspiring practice of experimental artist and biodesigner Jessie French is out in Matters Journal today!

Jessie French: Cultivating a Sea of Sustainable Creativity — Matters Journal In a world grappling with the environmental toll of industries like textiles – contributing a staggering 8% of global carbon emissions – Jessie French is riding the crest of a green movement harnessing algae for sustainable fabrication materials, propelling us towards a post-petrochemical future...

An article I wrote on sustainable design was published in Matters Journal today!

3 Inspiring Sustainable Design and Social Enterprise Projects — Matters Journal Dive into the innovative approaches of three brands that are reshaping the design landscape and championing a more sustainable and compassionate future. From ALT. Leather's biomaterials crafted from agricultural waste to Studio Klarenbeek & Dros' eco-friendly creations, and Vivobarefoot's pu

More pics of my costume design of PAT the Peach for at the . Thanks heaps to for the wonderful commission, the extremely cute digital design by , pics by and the team at for all their support wrangling the PATs hectic performance schedule.

Fabricated a 9.5 metre long horse for Carlton & United Breweries late last year. Dream team of collaborators include event production by , sculptural expertise by and fabrication assistance from

Love me or weave me

LocalPeoples commissioned me to write an article about how gig workers are impacting the care economy. The piece is now live! https://www.localpeoples.com/our-research/australias-care-economy-where-technology-and-humanity-intertwine/

I hand made this gold chainmail veil for ‘s performance with at the last year - HMU if you wanna commission me to make you some bespoke headwear ✨⛓✨

‘Lilac Floral Jacket’. Vintage hand stitched appliqué on lilac leather with digitally printed pastel diamond silk lining. Made in Fitzroy. DM if you wanna check it out IRL 🌺💐🌷🌸🌹🪷

‘Carpet Shark Blazer’. Commissioned by Inside Magazine for the Idea Awards (2009). This is a one-of-a-kind wool blazer (sz 10), available for purchase from my Fitzroy studio. DM to make an appointment to view this and other AF archive pieces.

Recent painting. Acrylic on canvas. 76cm x 76cm. DM for a private viewing at my Fitzroy studio.

I’m part of an exhibtion titled Im-permanent at the Store Gallery, that opened last night! An official part of Design Week, the exhibtion features 50 practitioners working with mycelium including Dr Judith Glover, Josh Riesel, Dr Emma Luke and . I wrote a preview about the show for that came out today! (Link in bio). I’ll be on a panel discussion there at 1pm tomorrow - Sat May 20. Love to see you there!

New painting. Acrylic on canvas. 51cm H x 31cm W. DM for a viewing at my Fitzroy studio.

The latest iteration of my biomaterial research is currently exhibited in a group show titled ‘Alternative Provisions’, curated by , featuring the works of , James Walsh, and Yu-Fang Chi. There will be a finissage on the final day, 2 - 4pm on Saturday, March 26, 2022. All welcome.

Alternative Provisions presents the work of designers and makers expanding material practice as an act of making good. The exhibition explores how unexpected and under-utilised materials, driven by the notion of ‘reuse’, are developed and used in interesting ways by today’s makers.

The exhibitors each forage for their material, whether organic matter or discarded waste product, to create works that offer production alternatives, as well as a means to tell new stories.

By joining these makers in their search for more mindful provisions, we are lead to re-evaluate how we engage with materials for production and the potential presented by seeking conscious alternatives.

Presented as part of Design Week, Alternative Provisions joins the broader conversation on the environmental implications of human presence and the revaluation of our actions. Let’s make good on our responsibilities to the environment through creative innovation. (Text via Craft Victoria website).

Last night my new stool collaboration with was unveiled in a Melbourne Design Week exhibition titled ‘After Hours’ Studio . The stool is manufactured in solid steel and upholstered with a biomaterial I biofactured via the secretions of microorganisms. ‘After Hours’ is an exhibition of the side projects of design professionals featuring the stellar work of:
in collaboration with Amanda Oliver
Khai Liew
Michael Gittings
HB Peace

for ACV
Morgan Hickinbotham for LAAP

The show runs 18.03.22 – 23.03.22, 9am – 5pm, is open to the public and all are welcome.

I hand wove this garment during a recently completed residency . This piece utilises leftover materials from ATW’s tapestry commissions, and further explores my interest in designing and manufacturing ecologically and ethically sustainable garments and textiles. If you’d like me to weave something bespoke into your life, let’s chat!

Today, Saturday Feb 26, is the last chance to view my biodesign material research . ‘Future U’ is a large group exhibition that first opened in June 2021, featuring the bioart and biodesign of a number of wonderful creatives including .piccinini . There will also be intermittent performances from 12.30pm. Love to see you there!!

I’m delighted to announce I’m presenting a new iteration of my textile research in a group exhibtion named ‘Alternative Provisions’, running Feb 4 - March 27, 2022. I’m honoured to be showing alongside fellow material researchers , Ella Saddington, James Walsh, Narelle White and Yu-Fang Chi. Thanks also to for her curatorial and program management support. Love to see you all there! 😘

Image courtesy Craft Victoria. Photographer: Annika Kafcaloudis

When the love of your life invites you kayaking 📸

Loving you is a garden of earthly delights. Happy birthday and ❤️ U 4eva Sal - also thank you to our fairy godmother Anne for the 📸

Happy birthday to the most wonderful, talented, kind, beautiful, intelligent, delightful, sexy, vivacious leopard I could possibly imagine sharing love with. I’m eternally grateful that the myriad roads of life have lead to our paths crossing and I’m looking forward to spending each and every day making myself worthy of sharing love with you until the end of eternity. Much love now, and always, dearest Sal ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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I’m so thrilled and delighted to be conducting the oral defence of my practice led research degree during the upcoming PRS Symposium on Monday Oct 18, 2021, from 12.30 - 1.30pm. If you’d like to tune in to hear about my research journey, the link is in my bio 🦠 🧫 🧬 🔬

Thanks for taking me out on a limb 🌼🌱🌺☘️🌸🌿💐🍃🦜🌷Happiest of happy birthdays to one of the most beautiful and inspiring birds orbiting around my menagerie 💛💛💛

Interview out today for - a prelude to a film I’ve contributed garments to which screens online on March 20, link in bio. Writing film styling

Just a little bit of lights reading! .j.noonan, Gerry Bibby, Bruce Pascoe aka , also Anna Burns, Isabel Allende , Jeanette Winterson, Ottessa Moshfegh, Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Victoria Finlay, Tom Robbins +!Tanizaki, Huxley, Suskind, Ballard, Kundera, Pasternak, Ballard, Tolstoy, Hughes, Burgess, Salinger et al....

What a fantastic Pup Gay we had! What it ‘laked’ in the IRL celebration of whipping majestic beasts it delivered in spades of al fresco picnic fans! So wonderful of the Victorian State Government to dedicate a public holiday to gay puppies everywhere! 🌈 🐶 🐩 🐕 🎉 🎈 🎊🍸🍹🍾 🥂🌱 💐 🌈
Gown of Shadows is a collab with - toucan .walker 📸 repost +

It’s a little known fact I’m a Great Uncle. I know right! But surely I’m waaaay too bright eyed and bushy tailed for such middle aged rights of passage — Well evidently baby Lua (meaning moon in Portuguese - and who was born on the full moon) puts a spring in my step! Turns out my regular niece, (who is also great), is not only an intelligent, kind, beautiful mother, lawyer and yogi, but she also knows a thing or two about nutrition and specifically nuts-trition! So much so, that she’s now moving hell and high-water to bring ethically sourced Baru nuts from Brazil (AKA the patrilineal homeland of my Great Niece Lua) and I, endeavouring to live up to my newfound Great Uncle status, am shamelessly spruking these nuts to you, my Insta-pals, because a) they’re packed with antioxidants and a wonderful combo of vitamins and minerals (including calcium, iron, potassium, sodium, zinc and vitamin E) and b) because I want baby Lua to have the best nuts life possible! Check out with the discount code “Great Uncle” for 15% off your first purchase! www.thebaruproject.com.au

Mask and you shall receive.
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Still life with bacterial cellulose and balcony weeds.

I’m really honoured to be sharing some of my biodesign research interests with a truly inspiring curation of humans at today, March 14, 3.30pm. All linked by a fascination with biological systems design the panel is moderated by the wonderful and features Maree Clarke , Kristen Whittle, Ollie Cotsaftis Natalia Alima & Dylan Brady

The image depicts cellulose formed by bacteria fed by food waste, under SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) at 6000x magnification. Produced as part of my current practice led research at the RMIT School of Design.

*The event will proceed as planned*

Please join us for this discussion in the gardens!