Gusty Ferro

Residency Presentation

Residency Artist 2025

31 October – 8 November 2025

During their residency at Standpoint, Gusty Ferro developed a new series of drawings and monotypes. Working mostly at night, they explored light, shadow, projection and sound as part of their studio process.

Alongside this body of work, Ferro engaged in a series of fluid collaborations with Sam Meredith, Anna Malicka and Anelena Toku, artists invited to respond to their practice through dialogue and shared experimentation. These exchanges ranged from conceptual conversations around tolerance and working from the inside out with Meredith, to spatial and audio-visual explorations with Toku, and a collaborative process with Malicka, who is layering new drawings over Ferro’s own graphic works.

Gusty Ferro (b.1988, Santos, Brazil) is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between architecture and the body, as well as the materiality of mundane objects, urban infrastructure and displacement. Their practice spans sound, sculpture, video, drawing, printmaking and installations.

By closely observing their surroundings and reflecting on how specific spaces affect emotional states Ferro creates a sentimental cartography, one that is constantly shifting and redefined with each significant encounter. Their work acts as a form of translation, responding to these lived experiences that shape identity and the perception of public space.

Invited artists Anna Malicka , Anelena Toku and Sam Meredith

Standpoint residencies facilitate artist development and enable the production of new work in a supportive environment, encouraging artistic exchange and collective working. The residencies are designed to be flexible and responsive to the projects, needs and desired outcomes of individual participants.

This residency is supported by The Fenton Arts Trust and is in partnership with Royal Academy Schools.