Danielle Friesen (b. 1997, Winnipeg, MB, Canada) is an emerging artist based in St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Working from a foundation in drawing, she invests time into rigorous repetitious mark making, in tandem with intervening with specific found and kept ephemera. Danielle makes this work in conversation with fleeting and intuitive aspects of her experience.

Danielle holds a BFA from NSCAD University (2025) and a Diploma in Graphic Design from Red River College Polytechnic (2019). Her work has been exhibited internationally in group exhibitions and shown in hum (2025), a solo exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most recently, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia acquired a work for its permanent collection.

She is co-director and co-curator of 231LondonRoad, an artist-led gallery in St Leonards-on-Sea.

Education

2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS

  • Arthur Lismer Award of Academic Excellence 

  • Simon Chang Foundation for Change Scholarship  

  • Dalglish Family Foundation Exhibition Bursary 

  • Bernadette Macdonald Bursary 

  • Thomas George and Ethel Pearson MacKenzie Scholarship 

  • Harrison McCain Scholarship in Memory of Marion McCain 

2019 Graphic Design Diploma, Red River College, Winnipeg, MB

Selected Exhibitions

2026 Upcoming: Papering Over the Cracks (Group), Gallery North, Hailsham, UK

2026 Method(s) (Group), 231LondonRoad, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK

2025 States of Assemblage (Group), Unit 2, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK

2025‍ ‍hum (Solo), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

2025 Something Sentimental (Group), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

2024 MUST (Group), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Public Collections

2026 The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Curatorial

2026 Love Machine (co-curator), 231LondonRoad, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK

2026 Ruin & Repair (co-curator), 231LondonRoad, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK

2026 Method(s) (co-curator), 231LondonRoad, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK

Awards

2026 Extended Longlist, Jackson’s Art Prize, UK

Articles & Talks

2025 Artist Talk, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

2024 Guest Presentation, Mad Studies | Jay Heisler, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS

2020 Randall King, “Survival by Design”, Winnipeg Free Press.