CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Brett Ferry

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Brett Ferry has been announced as a Finalist in the 2024 John Leslie Art Prize

Brett Ferry’s practice explores a ‘post-digital landscape’ derived explicitly from observation, photography and digital manipulation. Challenging the conventions of traditional landscape painting with his bold use of colour, blending and perspective, Ferry’s art becomes a twofold endeavour, depicting not only the truth and beauty of nature as it struggles to survive, but also a questioning of the psychology of its reception. Filtering his own experience of landscape through a process of documentation, digital manipulation and eventual painterly reproduction, Ferry aims to create a dialogue between tradition and technology using the tools of our time, and a discourse within art history.

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.
Artist Statement, Brett Ferry

While those eventual painterly depictions of native trees and grasses remain more or less accurate, the trace of digital intrusions; marks suggestive of erasure, hard edged scrawls and psychedelic gradient colour fields, disrupt any literal reading of these images, and reinforce the notion that we receive our experiences through a filter of awareness. The artist is in effect creating a secondary space, housing within the physical surface of the canvas, a conceptual field of the human mind. Ferry’s trees and the wild skies behind them become representations of a cognitive event.
Excerpt of catalogue essay by Phe Luxford, 2019

ARTIST PROFILE:
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 has been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize (2024, 2022), the Bayside Art Prize (2017) and winner of the Roi Art Prize (2020). 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. His work is held in the collections of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne Library and Maurice Blackburn Pty Ltd amongst others.

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Quiet Space 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
112cm x 102cm (part 1 of possible diptych) In Artist's Studio
$4,750 AUD

A Long Hard Think 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
112cm x 102cm (part 2 of possible diptych) In Artist's Studio
$4,750 AUD

Golden Breach 1 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
61cm x 56cm In Artist's studio
$2,800 AUD

Golden Breach 2 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
61cm x 56cm In Artist's studio
$2,800 AUD

RGB 1 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
46cm x 38cm In Artist's studio
$950 AUD

RGB 2 2021
acrylic and oil on linen
46cm x 38cm In Artist's studio
$950 AUD

Hidden Agenda 2019
acrylic and oil on polycotton
61cm x 57cm In Artist's studio
$1,800 AUD

New Order 2024
oil on linen
20cm x 20cm
$800 AUD