Freddie Robins’ studio practice questions conformity and notions of normality, and intersects the categorisations of art, design and craft. She uses knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition, more recently exploring and expressing intimate feelings of sadness, fear and loss.

Robins finds knitting to be a powerful medium for self-expression and communication because of the cultural preconceptions surrounding it. Her work subverts these preconceptions and disrupts the notion of the medium being passive and benign.

Robins has built up an extensive and innovative body of figurative works and has exhibited extensively within the UK and abroad, most notably in Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, and The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

Robins’ work is held in both private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Crafts Council, Nottingham Castle Museum, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway.