Jackson Farley

Jackson Farley is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His practice intertwines narrative and humour to point out the absurdities of archaic power structures and hierarchies.

Using digital media, drawing, AI and 3D methodologies, Farley’s work is as sentimental as it is a parody, pondering naïvely on art, history, religion, and everything in between. Accepted forms are fragmented, repurposed, put back together, and then broken once more. With the crudeness of slapstick, schoolboy humour, and sexual innuendo, his work speaks to the irony of the now, whilst also conversely, being just as sentimental, heartfelt, and self-reflective.

Farley completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2017, and was awarded the University Awards for both Drawing and Print-Media. He has also studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA, and was awarded the China Cultural Centre residency in Chengdu, China in 2017. In 2024 Farley was a finalist in the Sydney Contemporary MA Art Prize, in 2019 a selected finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Exhibition, and in 2018 in the Blake Prize, The Churchie Emerging Art Award and Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2020, Farley was awarded a year-long City of Sydney creative live/work tenancy in Darlinghurst.