Jack Whitelock 傑克 · 懷特洛克

Jack Whitelock is a painter from Hull, Yorkshire. He completed a BA in Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art (2020), before completing his Masters degree in Painting, at the Royal College of Art (2023), where he was a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship award.

"Style is not a concern, but a symptom of whatever face I'm wearing in the moment of applying paint to a surface. Through an embracement of stylistic freedom, a painting that could be rooted in doubts, fears, curiosities, can oscillate to something embedded in notions of loss and growth, disruption and repair, hope and resilience. It is within this oscillation that painting provides spaces for change. Ranging from the subject matter of trees, landscapes, flowers or abstraction, I use painterly interventions to realise and dissect lived experiences into material, becoming a vessel to hold psychologies or to satisfy curiosities. Each work is an act of rewiring and rediscovering new patterns, mysteries, processes and memories."