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Birth of the Boys (2019) 5 minutes, 25 seconds, Install at Sydney College of the Arts
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Art Collector issue #113 (2025)
LITTLE DEATHS by Josephine Mead
In conversation with writer Josephine, artist Jackson Farley reflects on humour, irony, and tenderness as tools to dismantle power. Exploring themes of colonialism, religion, masculinity and “self-work,” Farley unpacks the evolution of his practice and the personal roots of HAVE A GOOD DEATH—a new exhibition of AI-woven tapestries and sculptural shrines. “I’m a digital artist, but think of myself as a failed painter,” he jokes, describing the works as love letters to the soft, sensitive men who raised him—and to the difficult letting-go of outdated versions of self.
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Vault Magazine issue #50 (2025)
Photo essay
Featured in Vault Magazine’s special textile art edition, Jackson Farley presents a photo essay exploring the intersections of softness, grief, and digital materiality.
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Artist Profile issue #44 (2019)
Discovery Artist
In Artist Profile Issue 44, Farley was selected as the issue’s ‘Discovery’ artist, offering a personal and irreverent glimpse into his multidisciplinary practice. Blending satire, cartoon aesthetics and cultural critique, Farley unpacks phallocentric histories and the societal scripts of manhood through print, textiles, video, and sculpture. From Catholic school doodles to dick-monster resurrection films, his work charts a path through humour, vulnerability, and a radical reimagining of masculinity.
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