Freyja Dean studied BA Scientific and Natural History Illustration at Lancaster University before her MA in Art and Science at Central St Martins, London. She has also studied Forensic Facial Reconstruction at Cambridge University and History of Medicine through the Open University.

This has influenced her work in various artistic fields such as designing opera costumes, character design for computer games, album covers, artworks for medical museums, public art pieces and her work for the Royal College of Surgeons creating synthetic body parts for surgeons to practice procedures on. Freyja is now working freelance design projects and exhibitions in the UK and Tokyo where she is currently living and working.