Will French



Will French is an Australian artist working in Sydney’s Inner West. His work bounces between ephemera, objects, images and text, favoring lines of enquiry over any particular medium. Within these varied expressions, familiar conceptual traits include visual appropriation, wry humor, universal questions and internal dialogue, with a strong lean towards the poetic.

French completed a Masters in Visual Arts at the University of Sydney in 2005. He has exhibited in artist run spaces, commercial galleries and major institutions across Australia. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including COFA Prize recipient of the Paddington Art Prize, Australia Council New Work Grants, Maddocks Emerging Artist Prize, Emerging Recipient of the SCEGS Redlands Wespac Art Prize and the 2008 Recipient of Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship. He has worked for periods in mentorship with Simon Starling and undertaken residencies in Paris, Berlin, Sweden, Tokyo and New York, Mexico City and Sydney. He is currently completing a series of commissions in Sydney and teaching at the University of Wollongong. He is also the founder and Director of Good |Grief, an artist residency and exhibition space which opened in February 2017.