freya brooke verona copeland





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PUBLICATIONS







13. Fang
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
First edition of 150 copies
108 pages
14.5 x 21cm
2025
Edited by Replika Publishing and Handshake
Graphic design by Handshake
Languages: Valencian, Spanish and English

Fang is a personal visual exploration of the power of place in rousing trauma, stemming from the artist’s experience of being trapped in her town Catarroja, Valencia, during the DANA floods of October 29, 2024. Surrounded by violent waters on a small mound in a field with no help in sight, she mentally mapped countless escape routes—each ultimately impossible to take. In the months that followed, while mudlarking through altered streets for supplies, she confronted flashbulb memories; the remnants of both the disaster and what had become a futile imagined path to safety. Fang examines the interplay of trauma, memory, and reconstruction, using image-making as a way to see and process anew. It does not document the flood itself but rather the psychological and emotional terrain left in its wake—an attempt to reconcile what was imagined with what remains, and to expose the absence of aid for hundreds of thousands of Valencians who on that day and in the months to follow were left without warning, help or salvation.

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12. ne’er such a thing
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Rada Nastai
14.4 x 20cm
Risograph black, 80 pages with 4 sewn in anthotypes 4 onion paper inserts, handbound
Secound Edition of 100 copies 
2024

To Desist.
un -born, -begotten, -conceived.

‘ne’er such a thing’, a photographic correspondence between artists Rada Nastai and Freya Brooke Verona Copeland grew from a mutual sense of displacement and loss. In their attempt to recover, the artists drew from a patchwork of surviving remnants from said loss, so as to fabricate a whole-cloth.

The book navigates non-existence within the confines of a five-chapter narrative in which semiotic symbols become the driving force. By delving into their individual archives, the artists have brought together collected artefacts and authored images repurposing them while employing an array of photographic processes.

The book is unified by the visual motifs of light destroying details, while in other images, dark shadows loom to the same destructive effect.

Printed using Risography on 120gsm Metapaper, the book includes inserts of C-Prints, 90gsm digital prints on tracing paper and hand-printed anthotypes on 100% cotton, all sewn in using a domestic sewing machine. First ed. 50 copies, Secound ed 100 copies.

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11. Eloquent Gibberish
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
14.5x19.8cm
Spiral bound
Cloth-covered hard cover with anthotype print
82 pages on various dead stock paper stocks and onion paper
First edition of 6 copies
Self-published
  

To know a language is to be able to read between the lines. What happens when you fall between the lines; when the lines merge into empty space in which no words in any language are able to form? To exist in a new language space or disappear within it is not always a choice. 

Eloquent Gibberish narrates the space between words, languages, worlds. It delineates the artist’s experience within unknown languages and her desire to be a part of the world through words. 

Pulling from various sources of phonetic and grammar text books, dictionaries and literature, set against the artist’s photography and found images, Eloquent Gibberish champions being lost in the Nonsense.

FIRST EDITION SOLD OUT




10. Public Washhouses     
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
14x9.5cm
set of 8 risograph postcards
2025

Photographs: Freya Brooke Verona Copeland 
Assistance: Isidro Rubio Vila 
Design: Replika Publishing 
Risograph printing: Nice Guy Press 
Valencia, 2025
First edition of 50 copies
Languages: Valencian, Spanish, English

Eight three-colour photo postcards depicting a selection of the public wash houses of the Valencian Community. These images form part of a larger research project into the physical structures themselves, the water ways from which they stem, and the integral role these wash houses once played in the social, political and private lives of women and their communities. 

AVAILABLE BY INQUIRY





09. Footfalls Echo
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
20.5x14.4cm
88 Pages, Swiss binding,  insert booklet 
Secound edition of 150 copies, 
2018

Footfalls Echo explores loneliness and disconnection suffered in major modern cities in a time of increased promise and opportunity of wider personal interaction created by the internet and social media platforms.
The book is bound and presented as a personal diary, tracing movements and thoughts through a city promising to be your friend while at the same time rejecting you at each turn. The three distinct image styles present the viewer with three modes of connecting with place, the endeavour being to come to terms with this unrealised attempt.

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08. Lar
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Youvalle Levy
260mm x 180mm
Newsprint 24 Pages, with 2 postcard insertst
1st edition of 70
2024

Lar is the third book in the ongoing photographic conversation between Freya Copeland and Youvalle Levy called Correspondence. Previous in the series are; Kalt and Weathering.

From Spanish: Lar, m. god of the home and household ; (fig.) home, homestead.

In the third book of the series Copeland and Levy explore the meaning of Home, the way in which the feeling of home can change and the difficulties of acquiring the belonging to a new home.

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07. Weathering
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Youvalle Levy
260mm x 180mm
Newsprint, 24 Pages with 2 photo card inserts
1st edition of 150
2020

Weathering is the second in a series of publications by Freya Copeland and Youvalle Levy exploring the existential dread, boredom and isolation experienced in large cities.

As a creative endeavour to bridge physical distance, It is a visual conversation over the great distance forced upon Copeland and Levy during international lockdowns and border closures as a result of the 2020 pandemic. At complete antipodes from each other, Copeland and Levy make analogous observations: Views confined by window frames and through chain link fences, feral cats staring at the camera with piercing eyes.

Weathering is not to distinguish between one artist or the other, but rather a way to remove a small element of ownership over images as single photographs. The amalgamation of the works serve to bridge location and the concept of “the artist”, putting emphasis on methods and processes of artistic collaboration. Beginning as an attempt to reconnect with creative practices after months of confinement and has become an agitated memorial to the early days of the world in its new state.

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06. Kalt
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Youvalle Levy
260mm x 180mm
24 Pages 4 full colour postcard inserts,
Improved Newsprint
1st edition of 150
2019

Kalt is a visual conversation between the photographic artists Freya Copeland and Youvalle Levy, exploring the existential dread, boredom and isolation experienced in many northern European cities, in particular Berlin. The artists communicate, as if in written correspondence, the longing for their native lands' warmth and light, while at the same time fighting against their native lands in order to find comfort in their adopted city.

Kalt has been exhibited in The PhotoBook Exhibition as part of Photo Athens 2019 in the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece. Kalt is held in many public and private collections including Samoa House Library, Auckland, New Zealand. It is also the winner of the Sabadell artbook prize, Barcelona, 2021

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05. Archive of the Arcane
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
20x14.5cm
set of 10 handbound manuscripts
80 pages each
archival cardstock covers
edition of 3
2016

Archive Of The Arcane is an archive of photographs, found photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, instructional photographs, objects and packaging either shot or collected between January 2011 and August 2017. The images included have been sourced from a variety of places; namely as a natural part of my collection process.

Playfully dubbed Tomes, these indexes play with the idea of the archive being housed in a tomb while their contents could be accessed in smaller segments. These two words come from the same source (Greek Tomos), entomological speaking, but have each lead down a separate fork in the road; Tomb referring to a large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead or a monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place. And tome denoting one volume of a larger work. As the whole collection of images speaks to certain fears of the subject, the image of the actual archive being buried in a tomb became an appealing goal to work towards. My main aspiration for this project was to archive that which cannot be archived. As Foucault says, the archive is that which is said -the tangible, I wanted to house in my metaphorical tomb the intangible - hopes, fears, loves, desires, worries etc. The images presented inside the tomes are mere visual representations of the intangible.





04.REPLIKA II - Ellipse
   Editors:
   Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Youvalle Levy
   
   Contributors:
   Chloe Brenan
   Freya Copeland
   Karl Dieter Schmid and Toyah Webb
   Rita Gaspar Vieira
   Frie J. Jacobs
   Taizo Matsuyama
   Jacintha Murphy 
   Ainsley O’Connell
   Ben Pearce
   Nuno Vieira Sousa
   Hamid Aaqil Shah
   Mark Blickley
   Kami Bugnet
   Eri Dimitriadi
   JM Francis
   Diane Hillebrand
   Nils Köpfer
   Takuya Koyama
   Youvalle Levy
   Chris Morin
   Esther Poppe
   Andrea Shettler
Speacial edition
20x26x9cm 
Edition of 10
2017

Book
20x26cm
Edition of 100 (SOLD OUT)
2017

As in a game of telephone, Ellipse is about passing information through a fragmented loop resulting in the loss of structure, grammar and sense altogether. Human relationships, in particular familial and marital, are explored through folding and rusting forms, the longing for connection with nature and urban spaces and the search for an art practice equivalent to a close friend’s embrace. Ellipse explores the notion of a cyclical history of a precious material becoming commonplace, The female form retraced until almost all trace is lost and Mechanical attempts to counterfeit imagination.

Replika II: Ellipse is held in many public and private collections including Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo and the MoMA Art Book Collection, New York

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03.REPLIKA I - Echo
   Editors:
   Freya Brooke Verona Copeland and Youvalle Levy

   Contributors:
   Elisabeth Eicher
   Taizo Matsuyama
   James Fuller
   Ana Barbu
   Anna Hanlon
   Kami Bugnet
   Chaveli Sifre
   Ben Thomas
   Johannes Arolt
   Helen Rowlands
   Alexandra Neuman
   Matthias Numberger

Speacial edition
20x26x9cm 
Edition of 10
2016

Book
20x26cm
Edition of 100
2016

Echo is a close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event; The repetition in structure and content of one speaker’s utterance by another. The deliberate introduction of reverberation into a sound recording. It is a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener; a reflected radio or radar beam; A characteristic that is suggestive of something else and a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another: a result of imitation. 

Replika I: Echo is held in many public and private collections including Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo and the MoMA Art Book Collection, New York

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02. Mayflower
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
14x9cm
24 pages
digital print on newsprint
edition of 20
2019

As with so called 'Flash-bulb memories' ephemeron presents faded yet visceral glimpses into memories that perhaps never occurred. smell, being the sense most strongly connect to memory plays a role by inundating the viewer with fragrances of the artists childhood.

Ephemeron was exhibited as part of 'Signs of Life', Fata Morgana Galerie, Berlin, 2105.

SOLD OUT




01. Test Print
    Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
21x29.7cm
100 pages
xerox copies on 80gsm xerox paper
edition of 4
2011

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