JORDY KERWICK (born 1982) Still Life 2017 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed and dated verso: JORDY / 2017 40 x 30cm PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the Artist, 2017 Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: Melbourne born Jordan "Jordy" Kerwick has rapidly gained international attention for his striking and bold approach to colour and pattern, producing highly intense imagery on the canvas. Interior scenes, teeth-baring animals and mythical creatures are paired with patterned rugs, wild wallpaper, lyrics, and even cigarettes, creating a unique fairy-tale narrative. Jordy Kerwick quickly found his calling as an artist after experimenting with painting garden pots in his Melbourne courtyard in 2016. With his first solo show held in Melbourne at Lindberg Galleries, the still life scene quickly became his trademark subject. Using sand as a key ingredient to his primer, Kerwick achieves a gritty, thick impasto which serves as the base to his skeletal-like flowers, often bursting out of quirky patterned pots. His ability to take what seems so universally domestic and innocent and strip the beauty back to a raw aesthetic is what has developed Kerwick's vast fan base. His more recent works look at predatory animals, specifically tigers, alongside domestic objects to create a vibrant, expressionist and playful composition. Since starting his own family, Kerwick touched on themes surrounding memory, nostalgia and retaining his youth, forming the basis of his recent body of work. Crediting his family as his key inspiration and motivator, he often expresses his newfound joys as a parent in interviews. While it is his family that inspires his integrity as an artist, Kerwick's visual inspirations are vast. Contemporary counterparts such as Andrew Salgado, Adam Lee Rhys Lee and Wolfgang Vogel have all had a profound impact on Kerwick's works, using similar colour vibrancy, layered imagery, mark making and use of lyrics, these characteristics can be seen across his practice and now credited as a defining characteristic in his oeuvre. Jordy Kerwick's paintings are now seen in major galleries and auction houses spanning across New York, Berlin and London. Kerwick's rise was cemented on the secondary market when his oil on paper work of a lion attacking a two-headed beast sold for €17,000 at Sotheby's in London. As a measure of his expanding market, this record only lasted a day, with Phillips auctioning a still life piece Cool Cats 2019 selling for €82,353 before their New York outpost offered Le Tigre achieving a staggering US$220,000. To see a self-taught artist rise with such market vigour in a short period of time is a rare occurrence in today's market where talent and competition is fierce. Leonard Joel is honoured to be the first Australian auction house to present a work by Jordy Kerwick for major public auction. Lucy Foster | Art Specialist Estimate $12,000-20,000 Condition: Please contact the Art Department for a condition report on this lot. The opinions expressed in the condition reports are a guide only and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Prospective buyers are encouraged to seek further information or request additional images during our pre-sale period where Leonard Joel staff are available for advice. Please note condition reports can be amended during the pre-sale period, so we strongly suggest any interested bidders check the published condition report available on the website before the auction commences. Leonard Joel makes no guarantee of the originality of mechanical or applied components. Absence of reference to such modifications does not imply that a lot is free from modifications. Absentee bid Telephone bid Bid on Multiple Lots Bid Live Online Request a condition report
JORDY KERWICK (born 1982) Still Life 2017 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed and dated verso: JORDY / 2017 40 x 30cm PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the Artist, 2017 Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: Melbourne born Jordan "Jordy" Kerwick has rapidly gained international attention for his striking and bold approach to colour and pattern, producing highly intense imagery on the canvas. Interior scenes, teeth-baring animals and mythical creatures are paired with patterned rugs, wild wallpaper, lyrics, and even cigarettes, creating a unique fairy-tale narrative. Jordy Kerwick quickly found his calling as an artist after experimenting with painting garden pots in his Melbourne courtyard in 2016. With his first solo show held in Melbourne at Lindberg Galleries, the still life scene quickly became his trademark subject. Using sand as a key ingredient to his primer, Kerwick achieves a gritty, thick impasto which serves as the base to his skeletal-like flowers, often bursting out of quirky patterned pots. His ability to take what seems so universally domestic and innocent and strip the beauty back to a raw aesthetic is what has developed Kerwick's vast fan base. His more recent works look at predatory animals, specifically tigers, alongside domestic objects to create a vibrant, expressionist and playful composition. Since starting his own family, Kerwick touched on themes surrounding memory, nostalgia and retaining his youth, forming the basis of his recent body of work. Crediting his family as his key inspiration and motivator, he often expresses his newfound joys as a parent in interviews. While it is his family that inspires his integrity as an artist, Kerwick's visual inspirations are vast. Contemporary counterparts such as Andrew Salgado, Adam Lee Rhys Lee and Wolfgang Vogel have all had a profound impact on Kerwick's works, using similar colour vibrancy, layered imagery, mark making and use of lyrics, these characteristics can be seen across his practice and now credited as a defining characteristic in his oeuvre. Jordy Kerwick's paintings are now seen in major galleries and auction houses spanning across New York, Berlin and London. Kerwick's rise was cemented on the secondary market when his oil on paper work of a lion attacking a two-headed beast sold for €17,000 at Sotheby's in London. As a measure of his expanding market, this record only lasted a day, with Phillips auctioning a still life piece Cool Cats 2019 selling for €82,353 before their New York outpost offered Le Tigre achieving a staggering US$220,000. To see a self-taught artist rise with such market vigour in a short period of time is a rare occurrence in today's market where talent and competition is fierce. Leonard Joel is honoured to be the first Australian auction house to present a work by Jordy Kerwick for major public auction. Lucy Foster | Art Specialist Estimate $12,000-20,000 Condition: Please contact the Art Department for a condition report on this lot. The opinions expressed in the condition reports are a guide only and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Prospective buyers are encouraged to seek further information or request additional images during our pre-sale period where Leonard Joel staff are available for advice. Please note condition reports can be amended during the pre-sale period, so we strongly suggest any interested bidders check the published condition report available on the website before the auction commences. Leonard Joel makes no guarantee of the originality of mechanical or applied components. Absence of reference to such modifications does not imply that a lot is free from modifications. Absentee bid Telephone bid Bid on Multiple Lots Bid Live Online Request a condition report
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