Freddie Robins
Freddie Robins
Bio
Freddie Robins is an artist committed to textile materials and processes. She uses knitting to explore contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition, questioning conformity and notions of normality.
Playfully subverting meaning and making, her work disrupts notions of knitting as passive and benign. Freddie studied at Middlesex Polytechnic (1984-87), and the Royal College of Art (1987- 89), where she is now Professor of Textiles. Recent exhibitions include History in the Making: stories of materials and makers, 2000 BC – Now, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, The Hepworth Wakefield & Saatchi Gallery, London and I Put a Spell on You – Magic and Mysticism, Art Exchange, University of Essex. In 2024 she was co-curator of Thread Count – an exhibition of contemporary textile practice with The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk. In 2025 she is the Ostrow Visitor at Reed College and Cooley Gallery, Portland, USA. Freddie has received grants from Arts Council England/National Lottery, British Council, Crafts Council and AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council). Her work is held in private and public collections including the Government Art Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, Crafts Council and Museum and KODE – kunstmuseene i Bergen, Norway. Freddie lives and sometimes works with her husband, artist Ben Coode-Adams, in a 16 th century timber framed barn that they converted into their live/work home on a working farm in North Essex. From here they run the informal organisation, The Blackwater Polytechnic, combining construction, farming, forestry, art, craft and collecting.
Selected Works
Machine knitted wool, reclaimed knitting needles, 700 × 400 × 120mm, 2014. Photography: Douglas Atfield
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Vintage lace glove, stones, 300 x 120 x 30mm, 2016. Photography: Douglas Atfield
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Hand knitted wool suspended from hand carved cherry wood pole, 1280 x 820 x 70mm, 2022. Photography: Daniel Browne
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Machine knitted wool tapestry, 3000 × 1900mm, 2019. Photography: Frederic Geurts Edition of 5 + AP
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Machine knitted wool, crocheted lurex, wicker basket, 260 × 520 × 260mm, 2015. Photography: Douglas Atfield
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Machine knitted wool, machine knitted lurex, expanding foam, knitting needles, glass beads, sequins, dress pins, crystal beads on maple wood shelf, 780 × 160 × 160mm, 2013. In Private Collection
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Alice: Machine knitted wool, reclaimed knitting needles, wood, 1220 x 240 × 100mm, 2016. Cecil: Wooden walking stick, knitted fabric, stone, 850 x 200 x 40mm, 2014. Photography: Douglas Atfield
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Taking commissions
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