Jacob Kerray (b.1988 in Scotland) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Kerray’s work draws on the visual cultures that surround his interests, particularly - football, pro wrestling and historical painting. Taking these as subject matter, he engages with the hierarchies of culture, social distraction, mob mentality, myth and taste.

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Kerray describes his paintings as “revisions of redundant fantasies aiming not to reassert heroism, but to present ideology with a sense of dilapidated lameness”. Observing the role of the artist, deification, myth and power, their relationships with morality and their attempts to achieve a consumable reified history that uses pictures and words as tools for both ambivalent ‘good and evil’.