My practice explores how lived experience can be captured through art. Using Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Installation and facilitating spaces of participation, each work creates the foundations for the next, whilst remaining connected to what has come before it. I am currently grounded in the proposition that life is experienced through the continual pursuit, creation and transformation of opportunity. 

Action Black, is the title of one of my core methodologies that places paint into the world before it enters the studio. Paint is applied to vinyl floorboards and placed into spaces where viewers are allowed to step on and write on the floorboards. The dried paint on the vinyl creates a layer that can be later stripped and applied into canvas paintings or displayed in a sculptural form with the floorboards.  Rather than treating paint as a passive material, I understand it as an active participant that moves through conversations, celebrations, performances and other shared experiences. These encounters become materially embedded within the work, allowing painting to function as a record of lived experience rather than simply an image. 

This methodology emerged through a work called Royal Flush (2017–19), during which I played poker to raise the £9,500 needed for a year's tuition at the Royal College of Art. Gambling became both necessity and artistic process, revealing how chance, strategy, risk and perseverance shape access to education, artistic practice and social mobility.  
This was the first time I actively tried to learn what things make me happy in order to positively affect my decision making whilst gambling, making a list of 9 core things. This list now influences what experiences I put the paint through. 

More recently, the painted floor surfaces have been stripped and reformed into floral forms. These semi-abstract flowers operate as metaphors for opportunity, fragile yet resilient structures that emergethrough accumulation, adaptation and care. Constructed from surfaces that have already lived through multiple experiences, they suggest that opportunity is not a singular event, but something continuously produced through relationships, labour, chance and time. 

Across the practice, painting is understood less as a static object than as an evolving material archive, where social experience, personal history and physical action remain inseparable from the forms they produce. 

About

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

2026 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London

2026 Figurative and Abstract Painting workshop, V&A Kensington, London

2024 Intersect, Chilli Arts Gallery, London

2024 One Nation Under A Groove, Bomb Factory, London

2024 Art Icon Auction, Phillips Auction & Whitechapel Gallery, London

2024 Beyond Boundaries, Guts Gallery, London

2024 Stuck In This Idiots Eden, Filet Space, London

2024 Man-Like, Harlesden High Street Gallery, London

2023 Minor Attractions, Niru Ratnam, London

2023 Life Is More Important than Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2022 The Memory of Architecture, Filet Space, London

2022 Ghost-Like Traces, Unit 1 Gallery, London

2021 Precarious Straits, TOMA, Southend

2021 Play and the Post-Peak, The Factory, London

2020 Rubens to Sickert: The study of Drawing, Reading Museum, Reading

EDUCATION

2017 – 2019   MA Painting, Royal College of Art

2012 - 2014    BA Drawing, University of the Arts London

2010 - 2012    FDA Illustration, Brighton University

ROLES

Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Art, 2021 - Present

Jerome is the Vice-Chair of a-n The Artist Information Company, 2023 - Present