Slump, 2022

Jordan McKenzie is a painter, performance maker and academic based in London. Making, for Jordan, is never a place of clarity or distillation but a squishing together of disparate elements; queerness, class, found junk, glitter, words, politics, poetry and rage. It’s this fizzy alchemy that he looks for in his paintings and performances, and this can as easily come from picking through rubbish and day dreaming as it can thinking about capitalism or critical theory. Research interests include queerness and identity, presentations of class in contemporary Britain, painting as a performative process and materiality.