EMILY FERRETTI FINALIST IN RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ART PRIZE

Congratulations to Emily Ferretti for being selected as finalist in the Ravenswood Womens Art Prize for 2023.

The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.  

Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize look forward to announcing the winners at the Opening Night on 12 May. You can book Opening Night tickets by visiting: www.ravenswoodartprize.com.au

EMILY FERRETTI IN EXHIBITION AT NEGATIVE PRESS

This summer Emily Ferretti undertook a residency at Negative Press. Over the course of 2 weeks she produced a significant body of unique works on paper.⁠
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These works were be exhibited in 'Cocoon Moon' at Negative Press in April. 
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Negative Press is a publisher of limited edition prints and artists' books by contemporary Australian artists, aiming to extend the discourse between contemporary art and printed matter.⁠

For a catalogue of works please email Negative Press: studio@negativepress.com.au 

EMILY FERRETTI'S 'CUTTING WOOD' SELECTED AS FINALIST IN BAYSIDE ART PRIZE

Emily Ferretti has been selected from over 400 entries as a finalist in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize with her work CuttingWood.

Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. The annual prize is an important opportunity for Bayside City Council to add exceptional works of art to its collection and to promote art and artists as a valuable part of the Bayside community.

The finalist exhibition will be showing from 12 May – 2 July 2023, with the $15,000 Major Acquisitive Art Prize and $3,000 Local Art Prize winners being announced at the opening event.

Image: Emily Ferretti, Cutting Wood, 2022, oil on linen, 76 x 56 cm, Photo by @matthewrstanton

EMILY FERRETTI IN GROUP SHOW PLANT/LIFE AT ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA

A profusion of flowers, plants and trees, greenery and brilliant colour, PLANT/LIFE brings together a group of eleven contemporary artists, including Arts Project studio artists, who are inspired by the beauty and diversity of the natural world. From over-scaled sunflowers to soft-sculpture succulents, along with drawings, paintings and ceramics, this exhibition presents a celebration of the plant life that surrounds us.
The group show is curated by Kirsty Grant and exhibiting APA artists are Anthony Romagnano, Brigid Hanrahan, Chris O’Brien, Georgia Szmerling, Lygin Ang, Philip Truett, Robert Brown and Rosie O’Brien who are joined by Emily Ferretti, Yvonne Kendall and Christopher Langton.
PLANT/LIFE features a specially commissioned immersive wall painting by Georgia Szmerling, coupled with paintings by Emily Ferretti on the windows of APA’s Collingwood Yards gallery. 
This exhibition will start on the 25 June at 11:00 am and end on the 14 August at 4:00 pm

EMILY FERRETTI WORKING WITH AUSTRALIAN TAPESTRY WORKSHOP

The ATW is working with Emily Ferretti on a new tapestry that will be part of the ongoing ‘Weaving Futures’ project. ⁠With support from the Playing Foundation the ATW commissioned fifteen Australian artists to develop tapestry designs in 2020. ⁠
‘Planted Together’ was one of designs created by Emily Ferretti in 2020 for ‘Weaving Futures’ and is being woven offsite in Jennifer Sharpe’s Castlemaine studio. ⁠
Emily writes: "I experimented with the motifs of the two trees in ‘Planted Together’ as a way of representing ideas around human connection and growth with the trees touching each other almost in a dance. I wanted to create movement in the work by using graphic representations of wind and cloud forms in the swirling shapes at the top of the work, and by using reflections, shadows and water motifs at the bottom of the work."⁠

Image: Emily Ferretti at ATW | Photo credit: Tim Gresham 

EMILY FERRETTI SELECTED AS A FINALIST IN THE LEN FOX PAINTING PRIZE

Emily Ferretti has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, a $50,000 acquisitive painting prize awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox.⁠

Works by Ferretti and other shortlisted artists are on display at Castlemaine Art Museum until 13 June 2022.⁠

Image: Emily Ferretti, Together they dance, 2022⁠

EMILY FERRETTI x SANDRA LOTT IN PEER/PEER COLLABORATION

For Art et al.'s Peer/Peer series, Emily Ferretti collaborated with London-based Submit to Love Studios artist Sandra Lott. During August/September 2021, the artists set briefs for each other as prompts for art-making. Read about their collaboration and listen to the artists discuss using art to communicate and play. The works will be on display in Melbourne in 2021 before being exhibited in London.⁠

Image: Emily Ferretti, Fountain collage (1), 2021⁠

EMILY FERRETTI PICTURE WINDOW COMMISSION

Works by Emily Ferretti are installed on Queen Street in Melbourne as part of the City of Melbourne's Picture Window commission, supporting the creative reactivation and renewal of the city.

To enquire about available works, please contact the gallery.

Image: Emily Ferretti⁠

EMILY FERRETTI AT MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GALLERY

Works by Emily Ferretti are included in Surreal Landscapes, a group exhibition exploring subtle and strange, absurd and dreamlike interventions within the landscape that shift our reading of it. Surreal Landscapes is on display at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery until 22 August 2021.

Image: Emily Ferretti, Looming, 2020

EMILY FERRETTI SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE

Emily Ferretti has been selected as a finalist in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.

The Bayside Art Prize is a $15,000 acquisitive prize awarded for a contemporary Australian painting. The judging panel includes Louise Tegart, Director, Art Gallery of Ballarat; Ryan Johnston, Head of Academic Programs, Museums and Collections, University of Melbourne; and Joanna Bosse, Curator, Bayside Gallery.

The exhibition of finalists will be held from 14 May to 4 July 2021.

Image: Emily Ferretti, Two corns forming, 2019. Photo: Matthew Stanton

EMILY FERRETTI AT THE AUSTRALIAN TAPESTRY WORKSHOP

Emily Ferretti was selected as one of 15 contemporary artists from around Australia for the Australian Tapestry Workshop's Weaving Futures project.

The paid professional development and research project encouraged artists to expand their practice through the creation of a tapestry design, with access to the ATW weaving studio. 

An exhibition of the Weaving Futures designs will be held at ATW in 2021.

Image: Emily Ferretti, Sweep and tumble, 2020