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GREG FERRY
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IN BOCCA AL CANE

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Born in Canberra Australia in 1980, Greg Ferry studied fine art in Hobart at the University of Tasmania. 

Ferry’s works are informed by the memory of an enormous Huntaway dog named Harvey and his travels and stays at grand houses in Europe. His exploring feeds his interest in the romance and fog of history. All the while harnessing research and experience as a mode of relaxation and recuperation. 

Good food, good wine, and cigarettes are for his muse Harvey, while chasing the sun all included in the repertoire. Honouring an artistic tradition of the Grand Tour of days of old.

The grand manors of Europe are invariably storehouses of the detritus of history. Art, culture, trade, diplomacy, conflict and power struggles all echoed in these   living museums. The romantic feel where Ferry’s work subsides is the age of decadence, the carefree period of blissful indulgent ignorance that invariably precedes the inevitable decline of an empire. 

Unfolding in Ferry’s works is an assorted selection of dreamlike metaphors in a soup of cultural absurdity.

At times his Huntaway muse Harvey is an object of religious power and worship, in the form of jewel like religious icons. Objects which would equally be at home in a grand manor or priceless museum collection. At other times he appears simply as a gluttonous poster child of mere vice and indulgent consumption of burgers, cigarettes and fine wine. Paintings of sumptuous interiors, chateaus, and stately interiors interject his practice. 

Whatever approach, Greg Ferry takes the viewer away to a smorgasbord of bourgeoisie escapism.