David Ferry was born in Blackpool in 1957. After being was expelled from school, he worked a series of jobs along the Blackpool promenade and later went on to study painting at the Camberwell School of Art and printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. His award winning book on the process of montage and collage: Painting Without A Brush, was published in 1991 and translated into French and Spanish, and is an established curriculum book in North American colleges and schools.
Ferry is the President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers RE; Honorary Doctor of Arts, Southampton Solent University; Emeritus Professor of Printmaking and Book Arts, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales; Trustee of the Sidney Nolan Trust UK; and former Chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club, London.
Watch video – David Ferry on Artists Books
Montage by David Ferry This electrifying body of work is charged from a long admiration for Robin Hardy’s 1973 ‘The Wicker Man’. This film’s fearless
At the beginning of this week, The Viewing Room London packed up and returned to Bath after several fabulous weeks at Hansard Studio, Shepherd’s Bush.
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