Jeffrey Cervantes is a contemporary artist.

b. 1989, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Addressing the position of being titled a "British-Filipino" artist, various works have questioned the relationship ethnic identity has on first-generation British-Filipinos.

What is British-Filipino identity?

Exploring concepts and theories surrounding ethnic identity, my practice has developed a strong relationship with issues such as migration, Diaspora, assimilation and the idea of cultural hybridism. What is continuously questioned are the ideas of cultural cross-fertilization and dislocation. What does cultural cross-fertilization take form of? What effect does it have on cultural tradition and history? Does ethnic identity still play a significant role within contemporary society?

My work continuously investigates the multiple intersections of place, time and identity. Continuities and discontinuities within cultural translation, cultural hybridism has reinvented ideas of territory, the negiotiation and re-negiotiaton of native dialects, cultural tradition and history.

My work is a critical reflection of ethnic identity within contemporary society. Culture which was seen before as stable, coherent and unique are now increasingly seen as interconnected. This development of interconnected cultures could also be seen as causing identity to be fragmented. But cultures are non-fixated and ever-changing, causing a unpredictable evolution of personal identities.

Jeffrey Cervantes completed his final year studying Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton in 2011.