13 Jul 2026
22. Jay Slyce
Artist Jay Slyce talks about erasure in painting as it relates to history, spiraling one’s practice toward possibility, exposing real-time decision making through the work, and more.
Jay Slyce (b. 2001, Hackney, London) is a British-American artist based in London. He completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in 2024, and his BA at Leeds Arts University in 2023. He works across media engaging both with image and object. This might manifest in a painting, a video, or three-dimensional work. Slyce’s work is held in the collection of the Josef and Anni Albers foundation as well as private collections across the UK and US.
Jay’s Instagram: @jayslyce (https://www.instagram.com/jayslyce/)
Jay’s website: jayslyce.com (https://jayslyce.com/)
Reference links:
Joel Wyllie, Aerial the Projectionist (solo exhibition, 2025) (https://www.foreigndomestic.io/joel%20wyllie_aerial%20the%20projectionist_web.pdf)
Europa Logistics (logo) (https://www.europa-worldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EuropaGraduate.pdf)
Selena Corsellis, Close But Not Quite (text from solo exhibition, 2026) (https://www.instagram.com/p/DYop9aQjga3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Jay Slyce, The Hospital (2026) (https://www.instagram.com/p/DadYqvuuIBu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Hackney People’s Press (active 1973-85) (https://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/hackney-peoples-press/)
Jay Slyce, Well (2026) (https://www.instagram.com/p/DXreagsDI0d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Jay Slyce, We Write of Eternal Things (2026) (https://www.instagram.com/p/DVlkzOnDACH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Jay Slyce, Wall (2026) (https://www.instagram.com/p/DXt6j2mDK2L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Sedrick Chisom (https://www.matthewbrowngallery.com/artists/sedrick-chisom)
Sean Scully (https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/sean-scully)
Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967) (https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org/tour-monuments-passaic-new-jersey)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (1943) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince)
Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook (1953) (https://monoskop.org/images/0/07/Klee_Paul_Pedagogical_Sketchbook_1953.pdf)
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940) (https://seansturm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/benjamin-theses-on-the-philosophy-of-history.pdf)
Marcel Duchamp (retrospective at MoMA, 2026) (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5820)
Jay Slyce, The Unfinished Project of Modernity: Social Housing and Civic Ground at Hoxton, (short film for Lynch Architects, 2026) (https://youtu.be/jK8iyQFRtEs?si=p5GqohgIW2jxtmqD)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne's Doubt (1945) (https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/christianmieves/files/2020/03/Merleau-Ponty-Maurice-Sense-and-Nonsense_Cezanne.pdf)
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence (1953) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Keep_Silence)
Francis Alÿs, Ricochetes (exhibition, 2024) (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/francis-alys-ricochets)
Francis Alys : Le temps du sommeil (1995-present) (https://francisalys.com/books/Le-temps-du-sommeil-full.pdf)
Gerhard Richter (exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2026) (https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/gerhard-richter-exhibition)
Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game #19: Haram Football (2017) (https://youtu.be/cWGZX3h7QYQ?si=sxVUGZJLeYDH2Cqt)
Rónán Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul (2019) (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Leonard_and_Hungry_Paul.html?id=bWOQEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y)
Jay Slyce, The Shame of Compiegne is erased (2026) (https://jayslyce.com/Works)
Entartete Kunst (Nazi "Degenerate Art" exhibition, 1937) (https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/entartete-kunst-the-nazis-inventory-of-degenerate-art?srsltid=AfmBOoqgcNVULbNbTj1R48Ce1mejJLjsCakzAZ15GD2wQmvVi401bKUd#?xywh=-2148%2C1227%2C4858%2C2623)
The Presidents Heads (attraction, current location from 2013) (https://thepresidentsheads.com/)
David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub (1945) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20140903-in-hitlers-bathtub)
Episode cover art: Jay Slyce, The Hospital, oil on canvas, 70x50 cm, 2026
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