Jackson Farley

Jackson Farley is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Sydney, Australia. His practice intertwines narrative and humour to highlight the absurdities of archaic power structures and hierarchies, be they colonial, religious, or gendered.

Using digital media, photography, collage, drawing, AI and 3D methodologies, Farley’s work is as sentimental as it is parody – pondering art, history, religion, sociology, and everything in between. Accepted forms are fragmented, repurposed, and reconstructed. With the irony of the now, they are deeply sentimental, heartfelt, and self-reflective. Most recently, his work has taken the shape of intricate Jacquard-woven textiles and 3D-printed sculptures featuring a mash-up of classical and contemporary imagery.

Farley made his international Art Fair debut at Paris Photo in 2025 with THIS IS NO FANTASY, with the booth being selected in the Top 10 by BeauxArts Magazine. In 2026, he undertakes a residency with the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, and has been curated into the 6^th Tamworth Textile Triennial.

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 Art Fair 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.