Linda Fredheim graduated with a BFA (Design in Wood) from the University of Tasmania in 1992.  Linda Fredheim now runs her own practice from a studio shared with partner, Stuart Houghton. Her primary interest in furniture design and making is in the function and associations of storage and collecting.

Since 1992, she has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and in 1996 began several collaborative projects with painter John Wolseley. 

In 2003, she received a New Work Grant from the Australia Council to develop work for her solo exhibition, Order Under Canvas, an innovative mobile presentation of contemporary campaign furniture, which was displayed under canvas at a range of sites across Tasmania.

She was one of the founding members, and is currently on the executive of the Furniture Designers Association, and is a member of the Tasmanian Design Alliance.

"I aim to design and make furniture pieces that have a quiet presence, objects that don’t demand attention, but invite interaction with the viewer through the exploration of the details of the piece.  I prefer to make pieces with drawers and compartments that ask to be opened and explored, and so take a lot of care over the handles, often custom-making them, as it is in the process of interaction that the viewer gets to know the piece of furniture.

Many of the pieces that I have produced over the last few years have used Tasmanian’s history and geography as a starting point, and though the use of text, images and maps, the pieces have aimed to tell the story of an event or person upon which they are based.  My newer jewellery work continues the use of icons though the reduction of 3 dimensional forms into simple 2 dimensional shapes." 

  

 

  

 

    

 

(t)  61 3 6234 9220

(e)  linda.fredheim@optusnet.com.au

(s)  studio visits by appointment