"What most interests me about painting is gesture and gravity. I keep working until the parts stop moving and I find peace. For me, painting is a performance." Edy Ferguson, September 2022

How can an art work come to life and occupy the space of reality? This question surrounds the core of Edy Ferguson's artistic practice.

Edy Ferguson (Studio 5-232) is a close observer of the everyday and notices how the advertising landscape, which bears filtered traces of popular culture and by which we are constantly surrounded, becomes a barometer of the sensibility of our culture. This implies the knowledge that economic factors are important in the creation of culture, however, when economics takes over, reality becomes bleak and contemporary art will find a way to address this.

Edy came of age artistically in the streets of New York. Her influences include the Fluxus movement, the New York Picture Generation, 1950's abstract expressionism and the vibrant scene of the East Village in the late 1980's, embodied by Basquiat.

About the artist
Edy Ferguson has exhibited internationally with her work represented in collections including The George Economou Collection, and the Lampert Collection (LAC). In 2021 Ferguson received a Creative Investment Grant from Cultivator Cornwall and in 2020 a studio development grant from Arts Council England. In 2019 she received a British Council travel grant to prepare for an exhibition and propose a public art work for the Yangling Mausoleum. Currently she is preparing a major solo exhibition for OCAT Museums that will tour major cities in China. www.edyferguson.com

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Thames-Side Studios Viewing Room is located on the ground floor of Unit 8. Entrance to Unit 8 is via The Atrium. Turn left upon entering the main site, walk through The Atrium turning to the left, to find the exhibition located between studios TB-10 and TB-09. For more information email [email protected]

Viewing Room, Unit 8
Thames-Side Studios
Harrington Way, Warspite Road
Royal Borough of Greenwich
London SE18 5NR