This month, Australian artist Jordy Kerwick will present his first solo museum exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the U.K. Titled “One to Give. One to Take Away,” the show will run from September 27, 2025 to February 22, 2026.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1982, Kerwick currently lives in Albi, France. He is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2016 and has incorporated sculpture into his practice in recent years. His work often draws on folklore and mythology, which inspired much of the new work featured in the upcoming exhibition. “I’m interested in alternate mythologies and imagined ‘what if’ worlds, so I’m thrilled to be exploring a fantastical reimagined historical narrative in such a beautiful context,” Kerwick said in a press release. The exhibition is supported by Vigo Gallery, which also represents the artist.
The museum’s Weston Gallery will include a series of new sculptures and reliefs. These include After the Storm (2025) and Before the Storm (2025), part of the “Gaillac Stones” series that is named after the medieval town where the artist lives. Also on display are three small terracotta figures that reference archaeology and the way fragments of culture are used to construct narratives about the past.
“One to Give. One to Take Away” will also feature four large-scale still-life paintings, which juxtapose chimeric animal figures with floral arrangements. His depictions of apex predators appear in The Reckoning (2025), a stone sculpture showing a feathered unicorn attacked by a three-headed beast. The work recalls classical sculptures such as Lion Attacking a Horse (325–30 BCE) and British painter George Stubbs’s depictions of animal struggles for survival.
In the museum’s outdoors area, Kerwick presents The Presence, The Power (2025), a three-meter-tall sculpture composed of stacked animal heads, including a bear, lion, tiger, wolf, and cobra. These animal heads each have two mouths, “alluding to the central theme of life’s give and take,” according to a press release. Another sculpture placed outdoors is the massive bronze, Hydra vs. Bear (2023), located outside the museum’s Underground Gallery.
