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Christopher Farr
Christopher Farr (born July 1953) is a British artist, rug and textile designer. Farr's work is strongly identified with spearheading the contemporary rug design movement with his business partner Matthew Bourne who in 1991 created and made rugs with contemporary artists at The Royal College of Art exhibition, "Brave New World".

Farr currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Life and Career

Farr was born in 1953 to Michael and Daphne Farr. He attended Rudolph Steiner schools, The New School in Kings langley. His father, Michael Farr, edited and wrote Design Magazine and guests at the family home in Hampstead included Buckminster Fuller, Richard Hamilton and Roland Penrose.

Christopher Farr graduated with a fine art degree from Slade Art College in 1976. His contemporaries included, Tony Bevan, Alexis Sayle and Tom Lomax.

As a young abstract painter in 1975, Farr won a Boise Traveling Fellowship to Peru. This sealed the direction of his artistic life as it was in Peru that he discovered pre-columbian textiles. He later spent months under the mentorship of Dr John Thompson and David Black and travelled to Western Turkey where his art fused with the teachings of hand dying and the ancient skill of weaving.

In the early 1980's he met Matthew Bourne and together they started their own contemporary rug label called 'Christopher Farr'.

Exhibitions

Wall to Wall Organized by MOCA Cleveland, USA September 23 2016 - December 31 2016

The Afghan Carpet Project Organized by Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, USA June 13 2015 - September 27 2015

Form through Colour Organized by Somerset House, London, UK June 4 2014 - August 31 2014

Made in Afghanistan Cavallerizze Pavilion of the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia 'Leonardi da Vinci' Milan, Italy April 2 2016 - September 12 2016

Awards and Recognition

In 2002 Christopher Farr, Matthew Bourne and Fiona Leslie from the Victoria and Albert Museum published a book called "Contemporary Rugs- Art and Design"

References

https://books.google.com/books/about/Contemporary_Rugs.html?id=i1pQAAAAMAAJ&hl=en https://books.google.com/books?id=z73uAAAAMAAJ&q=Christopher+Farr+designer+articles&dq=Christopher+Farr+designer+articles&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix_L3anN3YAhWpwFQKHYu2DtgQ6AEINTAD http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/interiors/11301590/Inside-the-rug-designer-Christopher-Farrs-colourful-Californian-home.html https://howtospendit.ft.com/art/85441-christopher-farr-afghanmade http://www.albersfoundation.org/store/ http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/christopher-farr-tord-boontje http://www.idealhome.co.uk/news/christopher-farr-s-new-edition-rugs-gets-livingetc-all-in-a-spin-42976 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/get-down-on-the-floor-with-a-new-rug-qt5br5m6xmz