In Swedish artist Jockum Nordström’s dream-like drawings, paintings and collages, people are always doing something. Whether riding horses, sailing boats, making love or playing music they are constantly in action. His myriad cast of characters seem to come from another era, situated in a world of muted tones and colours and depicted in backgrounds from the old world or brought forward into architecture of a more modern time.

Nordström's imagery emerges from the everyday and his memories, fantasises and thoughts; what he encounters in waking dreams. Suffused with a surreal quality, his works often contain absurd or violent elements as real and imagined worlds combine on the paper's surface. His first solo exhibition in London, All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again brings together a selection of collages, graphite drawings and small scale architectural sculptures.

The exhibition travels to Camden Arts Centre from LaM - Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

Jockum Nordström was born in 1963 in Stockholm, where he continues to live and work. In 2010, his fifth gallery show, titled Who is sleeping on my pillow, marked the first time he exhibited alongside his artist-wife Karin Mamma Andersson in concurrent solo exhibitions.

A major survey of the artist’s work was recently on view at the Lille Métropole, musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. The exhibition travels to the Camden Arts Centre in London, opening July 2013. He has exhibited in numerous solo shows at prominent institutions worldwide, including the Swedish Institute, Paris (2011); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010); and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005).

Nordström has participated in a number of recent group exhibitions, including the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece (2011); Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (2010); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008); and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2007). Work by the artist is represented in major museum collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden; Helsingborgs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg, Sweden; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina.