Jake Grewal

Jake Grewal merges Romanticism with his South Asian heritage to depict autobiographical themes of identity, love, loss and adolescence through a queer, dream-like lens.
  • Alumni
  • 2019
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Drawing Year Alumni, 2019

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Biography

Jake Grewal graduated from The University of Brighton with a first class Honours in Fine Art: Painting in 2016. Grewal’s work brings together the language of Romanticism and his South Asian heritage to express autobiographical experiences. Themes of identity, love, loss, violence and adolescence are explored through a queer gaze, creating a dream-like reality based in nature.  

Artwork

Bent leg me mine // I taste colours in the wind

Bent leg me mine // I taste colours in the wind

Jake Grewal

Regardless of dust they advise breathing

Regardless of dust they advise breathing

Jake Grewal

Glittering eels // fiery eggs

Glittering eels // fiery eggs

Jake Grewal

Rest under a dead moons reign

Rest under a dead moons reign

Jake Grewal

Cradled adoration // close knitted gloom

Cradled adoration // close knitted gloom

Jake Grewal