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OCCUPIED: Strange Company
Friday 15 May | 5-8PM Occupied: Strange Company brings together contemporary artists whose works temporarily inhabit the rooms of the Safehouses in Peckham. Set within
May 13, 2026
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
Latest prints – https://www.sandrahiggins.art/ferry
Friday 15 May | 5-8PM Occupied: Strange Company brings together contemporary artists whose works temporarily inhabit the rooms of the Safehouses in Peckham. Set within
Friday 20 Feb | 6-8PM We are delighted to present The Viewing Room. Join us for A glass of prosecco to celebrate the new installation
David Ferry The exhibition highlights not only the individual trajectories of these artists — who have each moved fluidly between techniques — but also the