Jordan Britt
About Jordan's career and background
a UK based craftsman who creates bespoke mythology and folklore inspired sculptures from steel, timber and brass.
Jordan began his professional career at 18 by winning various UK Art Competitions and exhibiting in galleries across Essex and Suffolk over a decade ago.
Since then he continues to create indoor and outdoor pieces for Private and Public Collections all around the world.
In his spare time, Jordan is a self-proclaimed
"D&D nerd" and creates replica armour and weapons from authentic materials for his own collection.
Finding my place in The Arts
When I was in college, I excelled at two things: Art and English.
So the day after I left college in 2014 I started Jordan Britt Sculpture and began playing "the art game" in order to exhibit in galleries; I would create pieces then retroactively assign deeper and profound meanings to them in order to please curators and be included in exhibitions.
When I went to the opening nights I was desperate to fit in with the art crowd, and although I was perfectly capable of talking like them, my humble origins would always shine through - whether it was my calloused hands pointed out during a handshake with a sculptor who subbed out her work to an un-credited company or an offhand remark by myself about “not making rent if I didn’t sell a piece” to the unsympathetic artist whos house, studio and artistic tuition were all paid for by his Daddy. It was evident I was not one of them, regardless of my vocabulary or skill.
Then Covid hit.
The galleries closed and I started selling my works myself. I started abandoning the pretence surrounding why I was creating my pieces and focussed purely on improving my skills and enjoying my work.
I started shadowing other artisans, craftspeople, engineers, blacksmiths, carpenters, leatherworkers, computer illustrators, all separate from the art world. I would pay for their time or work to earn my keep. (at one point I even found myself restoring World War II tanks)
These were all experts in their fields who had something they could teach me. They all made masterpieces, yet none of them had to justify what they had created with polysyllabic descriptions of what their piece was truly saying. So I decided too to abandon the futile pursuit of being respected as “an artist” in the modern world. For me it was all a lie anyway, so why continue the charade?
I make sculptures, yes. But I don’t think I’m an artist. I just consider myself a craftsman.
My pieces don’t say anything deeper. You can infer whatever you want from them. But in essence everything I create is because I (or my clients) want something nice to look at. They’re not a social commentary. They’re not “explorations of the juxtaposition of the fluid chaos of art and meticulous precision of engineering connoted through the delicacy of natural forms created from unforgiving materials”. They’re not something a 5 year old could have created before having someone heavy-handedly rifle through a thesaurus to justify its obscene pricetag. They’re simply interesting.
My absolute goal is to create something that people look at and think “Huh! I like that. I couldn’t make that. I want it”. That’s it.
So if you want an artist that is pioneering a subtle message on society through subtext and charges ["whatever he thinks he can get away with" +50% Gallery Commission] ... I’m not your guy, but I wish you luck in your search.
But if you want a creator who lives and breathes his craft, who hand-makes all his pieces himself with blood, sweat and occasionally tears, and who charges honestly by the hour, then drop me an email.
I look forward to working with you.
Jordan