NOW REPRESENTING: EMILY FERRETTI

CHALK HORSE is thrilled to announce the representation of artist Emily Ferretti.

Emily Ferretti is a painter based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her figurative and abstract images derive equally from collected images, memory and imagination. As a result, her images mirror their conception, hovering between representation and abstraction. Recurring motifs in her work include landscape and still-life scenes and while they are always devoid of people, their presence is palpable. Attuned to contemporary practice, Ferretti’s paintings engage with a history of picture-making across genres and traditions.

Dedicated to a full-time studio practice over the past 20 years, she has exhibited widely and undertaken studio residences including Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Cité de Arts International, Paris; and Green Street Studio, New York. Ferretti has had over 20 solo exhibitions in commercial and artist run spaces in Australia and internationally. She has also been in significant group shows and prizes, including the Geelong Art Prize, the John Leslie Art Prize, Len Fox Painting Prize as well as the prestigious Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Ferretti will be presenting her first solo presentation with CHALK HORSE in October 2025.