Backstage in my Studio
Cherie is a multidisciplinary artist working across illustration, design, and street-based practices. With a background spanning fashion, graphics, and art, her work today is a bold mash-up of these disciplines…instinctive, character-led, and rooted in playful observation.
The Play
My work sits between the urban landscape and the performed self. I am fascinated by our cultural desire to be seen, recognised, and validated; a condition that has shifted from marketing products to marketing ourselves. We curate identities, construct narratives, and present edited versions of our lives, often at odds with the messier realities beneath.
This push and pull sits at the centre of my practice. The tension between visibility and vulnerability. Between performance and authenticity. Between the polished persona and the evidence of wear.
Inspired by weather-beaten street art, layered posters, graffiti, and surfaces shaped by time, I work with materials that resist perfection. Torn edges, faded messages, accidental marks, and fragments of failed communications become collaborators in the creative process. Their scars, repairs, and imperfections reveal a history rather than conceal it.
There is a resistance to perfection in my work. A suspicion of finish. I am less interested in polished conclusions than in traces of becoming. What remains is process made visible: uncertainty, humour, discomfort, resilience, and vulnerability held in balance. Sometimes by me, sometimes by the characters I draw, and sometimes by the weathered surfaces that inspire them.
- Visit me at SY Open Studios
- https://www.shrewsburyopenstudios.co.uk/artist/cherie-jerrard/
- My Studio based in the heart of the UK. Shropshire
- October Art Fairs TBC
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