Jordy Kerwick b. 1982
Overview
Jordy Kerwick (b. 1982, Melbourne, Australia) lives and works in Albi, France. He is self taught, taking up painting in 2016, and has exhibited extensively internationally. His paintings and sculptures are held in numerous public and private collections.
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.
Works
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Untitled, 2025 -
Not Done Fading, 2025
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Life Deconstructed, 2025
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Inside Out, 2025
News
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Artsy: Jordy Kerwick to present first U.K. museum solo show 17 September 2025This month, Australian artist Jordy Kerwick will present his first solo museum exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the U.K. Titled “One to Give....Read more -
Vigo @ Art Dubai 2025
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Artnet Work of the Week: Jordy Kerwick’s ‘Le Tigre’ 1 July 2024 Read more -
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Jordy Kerwick at the Thyssen Museum 22 September 2023Vigo is delighted to announce that the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum , Madrid, is exhibiting nine works by Jordy Kerwick, ranging from large-format canvases to smaller...Read more -
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Instagram hit Jordy Kerwick draws on myths and folklore in his raw and bold paintings – Creative Boom – Dom Carter 29 November 2022LINK TO ARTICLE Recently hailed by Artsy as the second most in-demand artist worldwide, self-taught Australian painter Jordy Kerwick has brought his work to The...Read more -
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Jordy Kerwick, Q&A – Modern Forms – Nick Hackworth 28 September 2022LINK TO ARTICLE Learn To Feel Again Modern Forms Floreat House 33 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QU 14 October – 3 December 2022 LINK TO...Read more -
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We Asked Art Experts Which Young Artists Are Primed to Blow Up This Fall. Here Are 10 They Chose – Artnet – Naomi Rea 15 September 2022LINK TO ARTICLE Simon de Pury, Meriem Berrada, Nicky Wilson, and others share the artists on their radar. The art calendar is back in full...Read more -
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The Rise of Naive Art – Live Art Monitor 21 August 2022LINK TO ARTICLE IF TWO ARTISTS CAN BE CALLED a movement, then there’s a new movement popular among collectors. Call it Naive Art. Combining the...Read more -
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The self-taught Instagram artist who’s now courted by billionaires – The Telegraph – Colin Gleadell 3 May 2022LINK TO ARTICLE Vertical Planes Wellington Arch, Apsley Way, London W1J 7JZ 6 April – 29 May 2022 LINK TO EXHIBITION Australian artist Jordy Kerwick,...Read more -
8 Artists Who Had Breakout Moments at London's March 2022 Auctions – ARTSY – Colin Gleadell 9 March 2022LINK TO ARTICLE This past week, London’s March sales of modern and contemporary art chalked up £577.5 million ($760 million). Those results approached the high...Read more
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The Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in September – Artsy – Benjamin Sutton 5 October 2021LINK TO ARTICLE The chart above shows the artists who had the biggest increases in the number of collectors inquiring about their work on Artsy...Read more
Exhibitions
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Jordy Kerwick: One to Give. One to Take Away
Yorkshire Sculpture Park | The Weston Gallery 26 September 2025 - 1 March 2026Jordy Kerwick’s striking new solo exhibition One to Give. One to Take Away will be presented in Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s The Weston Gallery and outdoors this autumn, marking the first...Read more -
A Dream About a Horse: James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, Jenny Watson
26 January - 23 February 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's YardVigo Gallery is delighted to present A Dream About a Horse, a group exhibition of new paintings by James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, and Jenny Watson. A Dream About a Horse...Read more -
Jordy Kerwick: Hydra vs Bear at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1 August 2023Hydra vs Bear depicts a battle between the gigantic water serpent from Greek mythology and a double-headed bear. Cast in bronze, the two beasts are poised mid-attack: Hydra rises from...Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THIS
The Arts Club, London 17 November 2022 - 6 February 2023The Arts Club, London 40 Dover St, London W1S 4NP PRIVATE VIEW 16 November 2022Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: SO MANY SHEEP & SO FEW WOLVES
19 October - 11 November 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's YardRead more -
JORDY KERWICK: LEARN TO FEEL AGAIN
Modern Forms, London 14 October - 3 December 2022Modern Forms: Floreat House, 33 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QU In advance of Jordy Kerwick’s presentation of a new suite of works especially conceived for Modern Forms and designed for...Read more -
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FRIEZE SCULPTURE, Regent's Park, London 13 September - 13 November 2022Regent's Park, London, UKRead more -
JORDY KERWICK: VERTICAL PLANES
6 April - 29 May 2022 Wellington ArchVigo Gallery in partnership with English Heritage presents Vertical Planes by Jordy Kerwick . The exhibition comprises a new group of Kerwick’s distinctly bold, graphic and colourful paintings. Executed in...Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND SLEEP
15 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's YardVigo is proud to present ‘Between Consciousness and Sleep’ at our new gallery in Mason’s Yard. Jordy Kerwick (b.1982) investigates the materiality of painting through fantastical folkloric narratives populated by...Read more
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