Jake Fern

The Righteous Brothers are an artist collective fronted by Jake Fern. Brought together by a mutual love of classical art, they also shared a deep disdain for the pomposity and posturing of the contemporary art world. This fuelled their earliest collaborations, before their focus broadened to the wider cultural and political landscape.

Jake had been nearly destroyed by the nihilistic hell of Fine Art academia; he left with a First Class Honours in how to bull***. A nervous breakdown snapped him out of that spell and sent him on a journey of self-discovery; through the mountains of Nepal, the vineyards of South Africa, and finally to a mud hut on the edge of a Sudanese refugee camp, where he lived for five years as the only Westerner for a hundred miles.

Now a professional portrait artist with work exhibited at the prestigious Mall Galleries, he’s ready to set the cat amongst the pigeons. The Righteous Brothers are a team who know how to get people talking; not just controversial, but armed with the artistic skill to back it up.