Cherie Jerrard

Cherie Jerrard is a British artist whose work lives at the intersection of fashion, movement, and emotional rebellion. After a decade working in London as a fashion illustrator, where her graphic clothing designs were worn by TV personalities, she traded commercial polish for expressive autonomy. Now based in the Midlands, she builds raw, instinctive artworks that explore identity, vulnerability, and the theatre of self-presentation.

Her practice is spontaneous, responsive, and gloriously unpolished, layering paint, charcoal, brushwork, ripped paper, and found materials into compositions that feel like performance pieces caught mid-breath. Fashion and dance remain strong visual threads, but her work resists design in favour of discovery. “I’ve spent years whispering,” she says. “Now I want to shout.”

Jerrard’s latest series, ‘The Show Must Go On’, features theatrical figures that flirt with humour while holding space for grit, and imperfection. These characters, built from scraps, memory, and gesture are not comic relief. They’re mirror and mask. They speak to the quiet chaos of trying to be everything to everyone, and the radical act of letting yourself unravel.

Her studio, a repurposed framing shop in Shropshire (complete with a built-in phone box), has become a sanctuary for experimentation. “This is my first taste of freedom,” she says. “And I’m running with it.”

Whether on paper or in the street, her work invites viewers to disrupt the performance, embrace the mess, and find beauty in what remains