WILLIAM FERGUSON: TRIBAL TRACES

Painting for me celebrates the mysterious, the Australian landscape and culture, providing a spiritual stimuli within which I am concerned –interpreting values in subjective expressions – the inner life or spirit, rather than describing facts.

In my work I wish to project a profound aura of silence, optimism, and reflect mystery and spiritual resonances linked with my personal interaction with the Aboriginals and their land.”

William Ferguson, 1998

The above artist statement remains William Ferguson’s raison d’etre to this day; an art practice spanning an impressive 45 years, William’s career is all the more remarkable for its consistency in evoking a most unique interpretation of the Australian landscape.

William has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and most recently will now be represented by one of the leading galleries in Japan, the Galerie Miyawaki in Kyoto. He has also been a finalist in many of the leading art prizes including the McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria (1977) and the Blake Prize (for Religious Art), Sydney (1993).

William’s stunning mystical landscapes have been acquired by many notable international collections including Rothschilds Bank (London), as well as numerous significant corporate collections in Australia, including the Australian National Gallery (Canberra), Melbourne University, Parliament House Collection (Canberra), Holmes à Court Collection (Perth), and BHP Collection, to name but a few.