Jake grewal under the same sky exhibition

10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - Sunday, April 13, 2025

Studio Voltaire

This exhibition of new works by Jake Grewal (b.1994, London) will be the artist’s first institutional exhibition in London.

Primary to this exhibition will be a new panoramic painting, which marks Grewal’s most ambitiously scaled work to date. The curved canvas, almost six metres in length, gives substantial movement and momentum to Grewal’s core thematics, expanding his painterly explorations of transformation and time.

Grewal draws from Western canons of painting, deftly harnessing the language of Romanticism and suffusing them with a queer gaze. Within his scenes, the artist frequently pictures nude figures, nearly always male and often based on his own image, to convey a sense of human fragility and communion with nature. Equally, his work is underpinned by a rigorous drawing practice, and his charcoal and pencil sketches vary from depictions of vivid, verdant forests to charred, clouded landscapes. Grewal has produced a significant new series of paintings and drawings for this exhibition, which develop from his travels in India and Cornwall in 2024, where he focussed on translating light, form and colour in the surrounding landscapes.