David Ferry
David Ferry studied at Blackpool College of Higher and Further Education, 1974-6 and at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts , 1979-81. He became a painter and is now a leading printmaker. He studied Printmaking at Camberwell with Agathe Sorel and Frank Tinsley and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London with Peter Daglish and Stanley Jones. He is a collage and book arts specialist and the current President of the Royal Society of Printmakers (RE), and was previously Chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club, London.
David Ferry is Emeritus Professor of Printmaking and Book Arts at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, and Hon Doctor of Arts at the Southampton Solent University. David contributes to the outreach and educational work of the Sidney Noland Trust UK. In 2018 he curated a late series of unknown paintings by Sir Sidney Nolan in Ireland, The Celtic Imag
Works are in the collections of: The University of Oxford, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA, The National Museum of Australia, Canberra, The Art Museum of Estonia, MOMA New York, The National Art Library London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, National Museum of Wales, The National Library of Wales, the Jinling Museum of Art, China and the China Museum of Printmaking in China.
Throughout his academic career, David was the Head of Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art, Emeritus Professor of Printmaking at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Associate Professor of Media at Long Island University, New York and Hon. International Artist, Federation University, Australia; he is Hon. Dr of Arts at the Solent University