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Desmond
has been painting and drawing for most of his life.
His
career as a designer has been enriched by an ability to sketch design
concepts and present them to clients in a quick and engaging style,
free from the constraints of technical drawing and latterly of computer
aided design. Since early 2008 Desmond has devoted all of his free time
to painting and has produced more than forty works on canvas and paper
in an effort almost
to make up for ‘lost time’ while devoting himself
to professional design and academia.
Desmond
Freeman has had a broad involvement and commitment to the practice,
teaching and promotion of design in Australia. Educated in Australia
and the United Kingdom he was appointed Senior Lecturer and Head of the
Department of Interior Design at Sydney College of the Arts 1980-1985
and has been twice Federal President of the Design Institute of
Australia. He was honoured with Life Fellowship of the Institute in
1986.
Late in
1992 he was elected President of the Australian Academy of Design, the
Federal Government’s peak design advisory body. Appointed by
the Minister for Industry, he chaired the Commonwealth
Government’s National Design Review that resulted in the
‘Competing by Design’ Report in March 1995.
In
1993, Desmond Freeman was appointed Professor of Design and Head of the
School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. Since 1997 he
has actively held the position of Adjunct Professor of Design in the
School of Design Studies at the College of Fine Arts at The University
of New South Wales. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Design at the
Raffles University, Singapore
Desmond
was educated at the National Art School and at the Royal College of Art.
The
works in this exhibition explore aspects of the Australian landscape
with an energetic use of colour and brushwork creating depth and rhythm
with layers of texture.
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