About

Hello, I’m Freddie Yauner - I enjoy holding a mirror up to the world - sometimes quite literally.

My work explores how the human drive for continual growth has impacted people and planet. I want to bring people into the unfamiliar, sometimes implicating myself or going to ridiculous lengths to shift viewers’ perspectives. I’m serious and funny, trying to make complex ideas or issues simple to digest. 

As an artist that uses different media for different subjects, I come at things in curious ways to be able to reach a range of audiences. I’ve made viral videos of world record breaking toasters and digital fire exit signs that give hardworking pictograms a rest. I paint portraits of CEO’s using pigment made of pollen, take walks wearing a mirrored mask and spend the first three months each year trying to become William Morris. 

My work has been exhibited and collected internationally and is included in the several permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

I live and work in London.

My art practice takes cues from my background in design and social change. I have a deep belief that cultural outputs can be a social catalyst.

I studied Design at the Royal college of Art, graduating with distinction. I’ve taught and lectured at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and Central St. Martins. Whilst working at Northumbria university I co-founded The Design Disruption research group and published widely including in the Design journal on the extent to which youtube can be used to extend and promote the kinds of debate that critical design seeks to create.

I co-founded a digital health community, where I use arts approaches for social impact to fill gaps in health provision. Receiving funding from the Wellcome Trust totalling more than one million pounds to deliver community science communication programmes and being recognised as one of the first ‘New Radicals’ by Nesta and The Observer. 

I believe that Art can carry important and urgent ideas and start new conversations - and in doing so is a vital lever for change. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / ACTIVITIES

2025 _Problems with Success, Solo Show, David Parr House, Cambridge
2025 _SOIL: The World Under Your Feet, Somerset House, London
2024 _House Guests, David Parr House, Cambridge
2024 _Fifthteen - Group show, Soho Revue Gallery, London
2024 _This is a Red Flag - Installation, William Morris Gallery, London
2023 _Market Faces - Solo show, White Conduit Projects, London
2023 _Memory of Pollen - Solo show, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2023 _Flavours of FFS - Leeds 2023, Leeds
2022 _Wild Bee Cafe - touring Installation, Kew Gardens, London
2022 _Summer Show - Royal Academy, London
2022 _Pollen Text - William Morris Society, London
2022 _Leeds Sauce - ‘Compass Live Arts’ festival, Leeds
2020 _ ‘It’s good to be back home’ - Gallery FUMI, London
2019 _Pickle & Grind @ Trafalgar Square, London
2015 _Fastest Clock in the World - Mmuseum, New York.
2014 _Signs of Life included in ‘A Collection of Ideas’ - MoMA, New York
2012 _Signs of Life included in ‘Born out of Necessity’ - MoMA, New York
2011 _Please do not run commissioned for ‘Curious Minds’ - Jerusalem Museum, Israel
2009 _Signs of Life acquired for permanent collection MoMA, New York

EDUCATION / TEACHING
Freddie graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, with distinction in Design Products
MA. Freddie has taught and lectured at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths, Central St.
Martins and Northumbria University.