Jake Grewal: Now I Know You I Am Older

25 Nov 2022-28 Jan 2023

Installation view, 2022. Credit: Images: Installation views at Thomas Dane Gallery © Jake Grewal. Photos: Richard Ivey

Overview

Jake Grewal
Now I Know You I Am Older
Curated by Andrew Bonacina
 
Thomas Dane Gallery presents Now I Know You I Am Older, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Jake Grewal, curated by Andrew Bonacina.
 
In Jake Grewal’s paintings and drawings nude figures, nearly always male and often based on the artist’s own image, inhabit verdant forests and woodland landscapes. Unmoored from any specific time or place, Grewal’s dream-like scenes are spaces of desire and projection, where the artist’s exploration of self opens out into narratives surrounding the fractious relationship between human and nature, and the search for an idealised place of queer communion. Grewal’s figures appear at once in harmonious cohabitation with their natural surroundings and seemingly on the verge of being consumed by them, an ambiguity that suffuses his works with an atmosphere of quiet uncertainty and longing.