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 and playful elementality, its disturbing collision of faiths and intrinsically beautiful tableau of sequences stay in the mind long after viewing.
David Ferry’s sequencing, intertwined layering, flowing transformative power and spiritual significance radiating from considered, exuberant imagery runs parallel to this film and is what makes this work alive, fresh and dance. Further, these compositions stay in the mind after viewing. Renowned and internationally acclaimed artist David Ferry focused his acumen in creating this collection across 2024. The ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring and summer, the Christian versus Celtic beliefs and the pleasure and the power of creative play and juxtaposition of carefully chosen imagery spring to mind and are keenly felt and strikingly engrained.
It is difficult to pin-point in words: something in-between immersive, distilled fortified dialogue, feast of creativity, lyricism, virtuosity, apotheosis, celebration of the Celtic Spring, sunlight, raw vigour, enthralling. And enveloped in passionate intensity.
Edward Towhig RE, artist, writer and curator.
Mount House Gallery
Marlborough SN8 1NJ
5 – 22 November 2024
