Hi, I’m Gerry 🐈

I am an artist. I love cats. I am also allergic to cats.

My art is inspired by the happenings around me; observations that touched something in me or made me chuckle (the likelihood of that being a cat is very high).

I am a Singapore-born human, living in Sweden since 2019. People call me Gerry, and they say I look like a charmander. Thus the stage name I’ve had since my time in the Singapore street dance scene - Gerry Mander.

Credentials: I hold a Bachelor of Social Science (psychology major) from Singapore Management University. I also lived a decade as a communicator in the corporate world.

Zine: Working Class Cat

Working Class Cat is a selection of hand-drawn comic strips and caricatures. These works are inspired by the original character, the working class cat, and photographs of Pontus Pilates Kjellgren, a cat with quite the reputation in the Kjellgren family’s social circle. The drawings explore stigma, thoughts, struggles and joy that work brings, through 2 key feline characters - a sooty, grumpy-looking working class cat, and the very well-loved, legendary Pontus, whose stories are still being told by humans who have had the privilege of meeting him....

A study of Pontus the cat

Pontus - my muse. Pontus is a very CAT cat. There’s just so much joy to be had while drawing Pontus from photographs (collected from my partner and his family). A study had to be done. More Pontus to be drawn! Pontus Pilates Kjellgren was a cat that adopted the Kjellgren family (my partner’s family) and lived 14 exciting years in the outskirts of Knivsta, Sweden. I got to hear stories of Pontus from friends and family of my partner....

Game library demo art: Space Cat

I drew the art using Aesprite for Space Cat, a demo game for a game library, Karl2D. The demo consisted of 4 rooms, with some enemies, environment art and 4 character perspectives.

Game jam art: Edward lost his cat

Drew art for a game jam with Karl Zylinski. Worked in Clip Studio and Karl’s handmade editor.