He has recently been included in superscript, East Street Arts, Leeds; ,,Sammelbände”, East Street Arts, Leeds; Leeds, Make/Shift, S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Patron Party – A Retropspective, 54 Woodsley Road, Leeds; XL, MXXXII, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds; Eclections, ArtMarket, Leeds; The Battle of Art, Dialogue of Culture, EEA, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Berlin; 12 Shields, Oderbergerstrasse 51, Berlin; EGGS FLOUR MILK CHEESE 25 ways of keeping occupied, 42 New Briggate, Leeds, Interim, LCAD, Leeds; Painting for a Parking Attendant, Leeds University; XV, MXXXII, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds; II, MXXXII, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds; Artgos, ArtMarket, Leeds; Zoo Forty Two, 42 New Briggate, Leeds; Black Dogs vs Werewolves, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London; Lop Lop, Brunswick, Leeds.
He is included in the following publications: A Latento and A Latento 2 – Sammelbänd.
He was the recipient of the EEA Award 2008 and the Edna Lumb Travel Prize 2008.
Farrar manipulates ordinary objects for their performative potential to elicit context-specific scenarios which ludicrously extract the absurd from order. Acknowledging a lack of absolute control he creates the conditions for something to happen, of which an outcome isn’t predetermined but met through an engagement with viewers, location and durational constraints. For ex he will show Alex #1, a life sized doll intended to match his exact dimensions which he made over a 3 month period in Leeds. Alex #1 was made to substitute Farrar’s own presence in situations or locations which he cannot attend. He is currently making a second Alex to be based in Amsterdam and intends to make a new one for every city he subsequently lives in, the previous model always remaining in it’s ‘home town’.
Boulder - Mixed Media - 2008
Alex #1 - Cotton, felt, foam, fake fur, stuffing, aluminium armature, plastic and rubber piping - 2008
