Works on display include the artists own version of the Battle of Waterloo featuring tigers, bears, snakes and unicorns. Animals replace key characters such as Napoleon and Wellington but leave these characters ambiguous and interchangeable. Jordy Kerwick has been inspired by Ken Webster’s book Vertical Planes (1989) which documented the experience of the author receiving contact from people of the 16th-century and the future who had all inhabited the same cottage in Dodleston, Cheshire. He believed in parallel planes of existence all running simultaneously which is an idea that fascinates Kerwick.

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Kerwick’s brazen, colour saturated paintings transport you to a dream world of mythology, folk law and misadventure. The artist explores his own domestic family frivolity through the lens of alternative bodies or forms. Snakes, bears, wolves and tigers are juxtaposed with his favourite books, still life flowers, trees, and domestic arrangements within almost fairy-tale narratives. His two sons Sony and Milo for example are often represented as double headed beasts.

A programme of exhibitions curated by Vigo Gallery will be on display at Wellington Arch from April 2022 to January 2023. Forthcoming exhibitions include:

• Black and White - Ibrahim El-Salahi - Wed 1 June 2022 to Sun 30 Oct 2022.
  This group of Black and White works on paper by Ibrahim El- Salahi from 2012 have never been exhibited before. They were completed in the lead up to his solo show at Tate Modern, when he became the first artist of African birth to exhibit there. They show the Godfather of African Art at his best with a confidence of line reflecting over seventy years of creating his surreal multilayered visions.
  
  
• In and Through - Matthew Burrows – Tues 8 Nov 2022 to Sun 8 Jan 2023.
  The paintings of Matthew Burrows explore a coalescence between stillness and movement. Work from the In and Through series has a preoccupation with watchfulness and the lines that delineate the landscape and our physiology. Burrows speaks of his work as an internal vigilance for place, creating images that meditate on the deep knowledge derived from repeatedly moving in and through the landscape.
  
  
• Waterloo Sunset - Marcus Harvey – Wed 11 Jan 2023 – Sun 19 March 2023.
  Marcus Harvey makes raw, expressive figurative paintings and sculptures. He seeks out imagery that is emblematic of a brutish but proud Britishness, iconic images whether good, bad, or ambiguous without commenting on his own relationship to them.