Jordy Kerwick, born in 1982, in Melbourne, Australia, lives and works in Albi, France.
At once historic and compellingly naïve in their mining of archetypes and ancestral memories, Kerwick’s works are populated by quasi-mythical creatures. Wolves, tigers, cobras, bears, horses, unicorns, and humans all figure, often presenting as zoomorphic hybrids. Such forms lie deep in our collective consciousness, being the subject of some of the earliest cave paintings, dating from the Palaeolithic era. The childlike rendering of these story patterns is significant to Kerwick’s process, as he seeks to unlearn the conventional constraints of both adulthood and the art world.
Kerwick’s work belongs in the permanent collection of the The Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (AMOCA), Cardiff; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Masahiro Maki Collection, Tokyo; The Bunker Artspace, Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Florida Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Fulton Ryder (Richard Prince), NYC; Museo Thyssen, Madrid; Beth DeWoody Bunker Artspace Foundation, Florida; Coleccion Solo, Madrid; Allegras Arts Foundation, Madrid; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Chu Foundation, Hong Kong; AMOCA, Cardiff and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire.
Other solo exhibitions include ‘So Many Sheep, So Few Wolves’, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland (2023); Frieze Sculpture, Vigo Gallery, Regents Park, London (2022); ‘Learn To Feel Again’, Modern Forms, Vigo Gallery, London (2022); ‘I Want You To Remember This’, The Arts Club, Vigo Gallery, London (2022); ‘Pink Sunsets’, Vito Schnabel Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); ‘Année du Tigre’, L’Heure du Tigre, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2022).