For a
deeper
connection
to art.
deeper
connection
to art.
For a
deeper
connection
to art.
deeper
connection
to art.
Emerging art for private collectors, architects,
and cultural projects.
and cultural projects.
APPROACH
How I look at art.
I approach each artwork on its own terms, with curiosity, attention, and your context in mind.
I look closely at form, material and gesture to understand what it carries, what makes it singular, and what it might reveal about our time.
I look closely at form, material and gesture to understand what it carries, what makes it singular, and what it might reveal about our time.
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Private Collections
Your collection can reveal its direction.
A collection develops through attraction, intuition, curiosity and the decisions made over time.
I help you explore that direction through Emerging Art, bringing forward works and artists that can extend, challenge or clarify what is already beginning to take shape.
Each selection is presented with the context of the work and the artist, leaving space for your own relationship with the work to develop.
When you decide to acquire, I can guide the process from availability and documentation through to framing, shipping and installation.
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Art & Architecture
Art as part of the experience.
Every project creates a particular relationship between people and place. Art introduces another presence into that relationship.
I work with architects and designers to explore Emerging Art in relation to the character, architecture and experience of a project.
The process can extend from early curatorial direction and artist research through selection, commissioning, acquisition and installation, depending on the project.
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Curatorial Projects
Art in conversation with our time.
I collaborate with museums, foundations, festivals and cultural organisations on projects that bring artists, ideas and audiences into meaningful relation.
My contribution can begin with a question, an artist or a wider cultural context, and develop through research, curatorial direction, artist selection and exhibition thinking.
A question runs through my practice: "What is this work telling us about our time?"
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Curatorial Statement
What is this work telling us about our time?
I believe an artwork does not have to speak to everyone.
Some works may speak to thousands of people. Others may contain something that only one person, or a few people, are ready to receive.
For me, this encounter is where art becomes important.
My curatorial practice is shaped by close attention to what a work carries, the choices through which it takes form, and the encounters it may make possible.
Collectors also play a part in that continuation. Over time, the works they choose can begin to form a language of their own and reveal something larger than any individual acquisition.
I believe an artwork does not have to speak to everyone.
Some works may speak to thousands of people. Others may contain something that only one person, or a few people, are ready to receive.
For me, this encounter is where art becomes important.
My curatorial practice is shaped by close attention to what a work carries, the choices through which it takes form, and the encounters it may make possible.
Collectors also play a part in that continuation. Over time, the works they choose can begin to form a language of their own and reveal something larger than any individual acquisition.
ABOUT
David Ferriol
My relationship with art has developed through years of looking, making, teaching and working directly with artists.
I completed five years of formal art study in France, culminating in a Master of Fine Arts in Visual and Performing Arts, before teaching graphic art and visual communication for almost five years.
I later developed programmes for professional visual artists and worked closely with hundreds of artists on the development and articulation of their practices.
These experiences continue to inform how I look at art today:
through the decisions an artist makes, the relationship between material and meaning, and the questions a work opens around the time in which it was made.
I now work independently as an Art Curator & Private Art Advisor, specialising in Emerging Art across private collections, architecture and cultural projects.
Based in Sri Lanka, I work internationally in English and French.
I completed five years of formal art study in France, culminating in a Master of Fine Arts in Visual and Performing Arts, before teaching graphic art and visual communication for almost five years.
I later developed programmes for professional visual artists and worked closely with hundreds of artists on the development and articulation of their practices.
These experiences continue to inform how I look at art today:
through the decisions an artist makes, the relationship between material and meaning, and the questions a work opens around the time in which it was made.
I now work independently as an Art Curator & Private Art Advisor, specialising in Emerging Art across private collections, architecture and cultural projects.
Based in Sri Lanka, I work internationally in English and French.
ABOUT
David Ferriol
My relationship with art has developed through years of looking, making, teaching and working directly with artists.
I completed five years of formal art study in France, culminating in a Master of Fine Arts in Visual and Performing Arts, before teaching graphic art and visual communication for almost five years.
I later developed programmes for professional visual artists and worked closely with hundreds of artists on the development and articulation of their practices.
These experiences continue to inform how I look at art today:
through the decisions an artist makes, the relationship between material and meaning, and the questions a work opens around the time in which it was made.
I now work independently as an Art Curator & Private Art Advisor, specialising in Emerging Art across private collections, architecture and cultural projects.
Based in Sri Lanka, I work internationally in English and French.
I completed five years of formal art study in France, culminating in a Master of Fine Arts in Visual and Performing Arts, before teaching graphic art and visual communication for almost five years.
I later developed programmes for professional visual artists and worked closely with hundreds of artists on the development and articulation of their practices.
These experiences continue to inform how I look at art today:
through the decisions an artist makes, the relationship between material and meaning, and the questions a work opens around the time in which it was made.
I now work independently as an Art Curator & Private Art Advisor, specialising in Emerging Art across private collections, architecture and cultural projects.
Based in Sri Lanka, I work internationally in English and French.
INITIATE
A personal point of contact.