Jordy Kerwick

Jordy Kerwick (born 1982 in Melbourne) is a self-taught Australian painter living in the Tarn, in south-west France. He began painting in 2016, after a difficult start in business, at first as a way to relieve stress. That same year, he sold his first canvases on Instagram.

His early still lifes, in muted tones, gave way to jungle landscapes inhabited by lions, wolves and unicorns, most of them with two heads. These two-headed animals represent his children. King cobras and tigers with bared fangs also recur from one canvas to the next, set among household objects. Jordy Kerwick paints in oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, and works with oil stick and collage on paper. Among his references he cites Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Agnes Martin and Henri Matisse. He says he is interested in alternative mythologies and imagined worlds.

Vito Schnabel Gallery showed his work in New York in 2021, then in Santa Monica in 2022. His work has also been shown in London by Vigo Gallery, in Hong Kong by Woaw and in Paris by Galerie Julie Cadet. In 2023, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid devoted an exhibition of nine works to him. From 27 September 2025 to 22 February 2026, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presented "One to Give. One to Take Away", his first solo exhibition in a British museum.