Jackson Farley is a multidisciplinary artist and curator living and working on unceded Gadigal land. His practice intertwines narrative and humour to expose the contradictions of archaic power structures and belief systems. Working across tapestry, digital media, drawing, AI and 3D methodologies, Farley’s work is as sentimental as it is parodic - oscillating between the sacred and the stupid, sincerity and parody, reality and fantasy. With a sensibility that blends dark humour, emotional sincerity, and quiet irony, his work speaks to cycles of grief, transformation, and absurdity, while remaining deeply self-reflective, devotional, and a little bit doomed.​

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Farley completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2017, and was awarded the University Awards for both Drawing and Print-Media. He has also studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA, and was awarded the China Cultural Centre residency in Chengdu, China in 2017. In 2024 Farley was a finalist in the Sydney Contemporary MA Art Prize, in 2019 a selected finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Exhibition, and in 2018 in the Blake Prize, The Churchie Emerging Art Award and Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2020, Farley was awarded a year-long City of Sydney creative live/work tenancy in Darlinghurst.

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Jackson is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY.