Acrylic on canvas collage on panel

15cm x 25cm x 2.5cm

2025

(@bobbyefermie)

25% of all sales will be donated to Women’s Aid

Bobbye Fermie’s practice responds to themes of personal boundaries, social anxiety and belonging. The work consists of intricately built layers of collage and painting, depicting a female figure within her surroundings as a means of reflecting on the boundaries between private and public space. As source material, she draws from cultural depictions of the home and interiors, spanning from pre-renaissance paintings to interior magazines to set designs.

Bobbye (b. 1990, Amsterdam, NL) currently works and lives London since receiving a post-graduate degree from the Royal Drawing School in 2015 and a BA in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2014. She has participated in awarded residencies including Villa Lena (supported by CURA Art and RA trustee Katy Wickremesinghe), Porthmeor Studios (2021, 2023) and Hafod Residency (2016) and has exhibited solo shows with Wilder Gallery ands Skitsehandlen, Denmark. Group exhibitions include shows with Oliver Projects, Blue Shop Cottage, Christie’s and has shown at the Royal Academy Summer show (2023), London Art Fair (2022, 2024) and London Original Print Fair (2024). Her work is held at Soho House and The Royal Collection and in private collections across the UK, US and Europe.