BOBBYE FERMIE | To Set The Stage
Bobbye Fermie’s practice is an ongoing response to themes of isolation, personal boundaries and social anxiety.
Fermie's practice explores the archetypal portrayal of interiors and homes within culture and storytelling, such as theatre sets and advertisement. Her work explores the juxtaposition between the public and private space and process internal emotions through the use of sets and scenes. Fermie's watercolour paintings and collages depict imagined worlds that are often inhabited by fictional, shapeshifting characters. The viewer is invited into the world of these characters and glimpses a scene of ambiguity following imagined intimate moments. Narratives are often slightly obscured or one layer removed from the viewer, giving them a feeling of separation or voyeurism.
For this new series of watercolour collages titled, ’To Set the Stage', Bobbye further explores the imaginary world, setting the scene for her upcoming solo show with Wilder Gallery in Spring 2024.
Bobbye (b. 1990, Amsterdam, NL) finished the post graduate degree ‘The Drawing Year’ at the Royal Drawing School, London in 2015 after completing her bachelor in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. She has participated in several artist residencies including Porthmeor Studios (2021, 2023) and Hafod Residency (2016) and has exhibited with Oliver Projects, Blue Shop Cottage RHODES Contemporary Art.
Bobby Fermie studio view
Works are available unframed. If you would like help with framing please reach out and we would be happy to provide advice and framing quotes
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Studio portrait of Bobbye Fermie
Select Exhibitions
2023 The Forever Now, Art City Works, 6 - 11 November
2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Oliver Projects, 26- 29 October
2023 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy
2023 In my hand a forest lies asleep, Violet Hour
2023 A Mon Avis, Copenhagen
2023 Tales of the Home, Oliver Projects
2022 Pageant, Violet Hour
2022 Oneiric, Purslane Gallery
2022 The Duchy, Arc Padstow, The Artist Contemporary
2022 Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage
2022 London Art Fair, 155a Gallery
2022 A Material World, Liliya Art Gallery,
2022 What She Said, Purslane Gallery
2022 Studio Sale, Auction Collective
2022 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition
2022 Ridley Road Years, open studio
2021 Artist Focus, Wilder Gallery, (online)
2021 Reveille, Violet Hour
2021 50 x £50, Auction Collective
2021 Winter Fair, 155a Gallery
2021 Soft Shadows, Two man show, 155a Gallery
2021 White Crypt Gallery, The Artists’ Oracle
2021 Purslane, Ambrosia, online exhibition
2021 Mothflower, online exhibition
2021 Violet Hour, Green Fires, online exhibition
2021 Maud and Mabel, online exhibition
2020 Carousel London, This is Where We Meet
2020 Wilder Gallery, Original | Paper, online show
2020 Violet Hour, On the Strangest Sea, online exhibition
2020 155a Gallery, summer group show
2020 Bowes Parris Gallery, All These Gestures
2020 Sophie Breitmeyer, The Art Register
2020 Works on Paper 1 and 2, Blue Shop Cottage
2020 Reaction in Seclusion, online exhibition
2020 Kara Mirva Gallery, online exhibition
2020 155a Gallery, Winter Salon
Awarded Residencies
CloverMill Residency, The Netherlands, April 2024
Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall, Jan-Feb 2021 and Nov-Dec 2023
Dumfries House, Scotland, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
Coombes Farm Devon, ‘How Trees Talk’ April 2019
Hafod Estate, Wales, September 2018
Publications
2021 Little Book of Artists by Kelly Jay
2021 The Artists’ Oracle, Card Oracle Deck, White Crypt
2020 It’s Freezing in LA, ‘Lessons for Environmentalism in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You’, issue 6
2019 The Drawing Ideas Book, Frances Stanfield
2019 Ways Of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practises, Royal Drawing School
2018 Vinyl Cover artwork project, Illustratie Biennale
Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, October 2016
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