WOAW Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of the year, Année du Tigre, L'heure du Tigre, a solo show of France-based Australian artist Jordy Kerwick. Featuring a new body of works filled with brilliant colours and vibrant energy, the exhibition celebrates the lunar new year of the Tiger and investigates the topical themes of power, fear and hope. Année du Tigre, L'heure du Tigre opens on 22 January and runs until 17 February 2022.

Known for his raw, thickly impastoed works that explore the classic genre of still life through a contemporary perspective, Jordy Kerwick is a self-taught artist who has built his art away from the conventional structure of art-making, and plays around with textures and surfaces with a candid approach. Motifs and characters are brought down into rough shapes that veer toward abstraction, creating a flattened view of the three-dimensional space. Powerful strokes and expressive colours form energetic compositions that reveal beauty in its most organic and truthful state, recalling the art of Modernist masters such as Henri Matisse and Helen Frankenthaler.

Gallery address: 9 Queen’s Road, Central