Emily Ferretti

Sumer is pleased to present Hitting the Nail, an exhibition of new paintings (all 2022) by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Emily Ferretti. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Aotearoa.

Attuned to contemporary practice, Ferretti’s paintings engage with a history of picture making across genre and tradition. Influences of folk art and early modernist painting being clear to see (unashamedly so). Her work extends these artistic traditions, and in doing so makes her own indelible mark.

Dedicated to a full-time studio practice over the past fifteen years, Ferretti has exhibited widely and undertaken studio residences including Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Cite de Arts International, Paris, and Green Street, New York. Her work is held in numerous public collections across Australia and private internationally.