CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Brett Ferry

Congratulations to Brett Ferry who has just won the 2019 Roi Art Prize. The Roi Art Prize is an annual, acquisitive art prize of $10,000 funded and run by the ROI Owners Corporation.

Brett Ferry’s paintings challenge the tradition of landscape, teasing at viewers’ perceptions and stimulating the imagination. His bold use of colour, blend and unique style are both confronting and beautiful. His most recent work explores the “post-digital landscape” derived from observation, photography and digital manipulation.

Using a variety of techniques, Ferry places high importance on traditional acts of drawing, printmaking and painting. “For me, these techniques provide a response to time and thought, and a discourse within art history. This enables me to build conceptual layers of ideas and meanings, within each piece of work.” he states.

‘My latest series of work focuses on passing unnoticed beauty, ugliness, and the resilience of the forms that inhabit transitional spaces. I am interested in the clash between high art, the traditional cliché, and the Australian obsession of the representation of the landscape. My work embraces a deadpan realism, and a parody of marks to embrace the post digital process. For me, this describes the tension between humans, technology, and nature, and creates a discourse within art history.’

Brett Ferry has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Printmaking at Victorian College of the Arts, and a Diploma of Education at The University of Melbourne.
He recently was curated into the 2017 NotFair Exhibition, and was a finalist in the 2017 Bayside Art Prize. Ferry first exhibited with FLG during our annual emerging artist exhibition, Exploration 18, and was subsequently signed on to the gallery stable in the same year. He will hold his first solo with FLG later in 2019.

CATALOGUE ESSAY

Flora Obscura, by Phe Luxford 2019

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