Jackson Farley is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Sydney, Australia. His practice intertwines narrative and humour to point out the absurdities of archaic power structures and hierarchies, be they colonial, religious or gendered. Using digital media, photography, collage, drawing, AI and 3D methodologies, Farley’s work is as sentimental as it is parody – pondering on art, history, religion, sociology, and everything in between. Accepted forms are fragmented, repurposed, and reconstructed. With the irony of the now, they are deeply sentimental, heartfelt, and self-reflective. Most recently, his work has taken the shape of intricate Jacquard-woven textiles, and 3D-printed sculptures featuring a mash-up of classical and contemporary imagery.

"Creator to Compost" is a towering tapestry of which Farley says “This is where we sit in our humanity - imperfect, eroding, resilient. The work traces a cosmic humility: the maker becomes matter, the divine returns to dirt, the sublime to swamp. It’s a call for softness, to allow collapse without shame. Life’s messy. DJ Khaled got lost on a jetski that one time. The Titanic sank. The Evergreen cooked world trade. Boaty McBoatface happened too. This is the beauty and absurdity of being alive – fragile, full of feeling, still here.”