Jay Slyce, b. 2001, Hackney, London. Lives and works in Hackney.



Painting forgives itself for a second day. The event that has existed and therefore belongs to a time that is unchangeable in event, however longs to be looked out. The images that I paint are both entirely through my hand, my experience and my arrival at this point however through their material nature and form surrender to a collective natural history. A harmony therefore exists between the individual collecting-painting of images and the universal experience of seeing. The produced objects or images, work,  aren’t suggestions in a reminiscent way of another, instead they are all.  Painting by an artist’s hand. The work leaves an alienated relation of object to the universe, or even art to the object through materialisation, hence all is material and therefore has its own language and matter that thinks- you’re it as it is you, experience and matter.




MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, 2024

BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, 2023


Group Shows 

InVision, Safehouse 1, London,2025

Royal College of Art, Degree Show, Sculpture, London, 2024

Elsewhere: Festus, Bermondsey Project Space, London, 2024

Free Range, Leeds Arts University Degree show, London, 2023

Leeds Arts University, Degree show, Leeds, 2023

Lesion, Usual Business, London, 2022

Crisis Meeting, Gallery 46, London, 2021


Awards

KOKO x Spatial Values Award, 2024

‘Highly Commended’ Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize, 2023


Collections

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation


Talks

The Artist and Criticality Now, Leeds Arts University, 2024



Contact

Email: jaywilliamjamesslyce@gmail.com

instagram: @jayslyce