Jake Andrew Norfolk, United Kingdom
A multidisciplinary artist and experimental musician with synaesthesia, Jake-Andrew's practice sits at the intersection of physical and digital art; centred around the way the mind can perceive audio or emotional stimulus as colour, texture, shape and movement. We all have a relationship with colour and sound and his work exists as an expressive, physical performance that allows him to creat
Jake Andrew creates gestural abstract painting. As an artist, his mission is to expand viewers' perspectives on painting, inviting them into altered sensory states. The artist has synesthesia, which is the involuntary merging of senses. He experiences synesthesia by seeing colours, shapes, textures, and movement while listening to music. He transcribes these forms and emotional responses into a visual language to share his experience. Jake Andrew's practice sits at the intersection of physical and digital art. In part due to his unique perception, he is motivated to create experiential art. A classically trained musician, Jake Andrew composes music to accompany the visual. His physical and digital crossover work has been celebrated by multiple international galleries and is in significant collections; with showcases at Miami Art Week through Transient Labs, multiple collaborations and installations with international brands such as Adidas, Braun Audio, and Glenfiddich, and an exciting multisensory exhibition at TODA Dubai for A Study in E-major, with SuperRare and Morrow Collective. He plans to create more immersive art, further exploring the expansion of painting.
