Nick Jordan (artist)

Nick Jordan

Nick Jordan at Horseshoe Lake, Illinois
Born (1967-07-28) 28 July 1967
Chigwell, Essex, England
Nationality British
Education Manchester Metropolitan University
Nottingham Trent University
Occupation Artist
Website http://www.nickjordan.info

Nick Jordan is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK.[1] His work has been exhibited internationally, including at ICA,London; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Academia de Cine, Madrid and Musée du quai Branly, Paris.[2] Nick Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright, see Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan.

The artist's practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing film, drawing, painting, photography, objects, publications and collaboration, and often explores the relationship between the natural world and cultural history.[3]

Nick Jordan's short films deploy a documentary approach. Utilising voiceovers, sound effects and original scores, the films present oblique narratives and visual, cinematic sequences; capturing the differential features, or unexpected encounters, in landscapes shaped and characterised by human intervention.

Nick Jordan's films have been shown widely at international festivals, including BFI London Film Festival; Kassel Dokfest; IndiLisboa; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Interfilm Berlin. Nick Jordan's film The Atom Station was awarded Best Documentary at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, 2015. Nature House Inc was awarded best film at Swedenborg Short Film Festival 2013,[4] and at the Northern Artists Film Programme 2014.[5] Jordan's film Fury won Best Film at the first London Short Film Festival, in 2004,[6] and his collaborative films with Jacob Cartwright have won best film awards at London Short Film Festival 2009; Document.Art Film Festival, Romania, 2012 ; St. Louis International Film Festival 2013; River’s Edge Film Festival 2013; Big Muddy Film Festival 2013.[7]

Nick Jordan is the co-director of Between Two Rivers (2012)[8] – a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois.

The artist's public art commissions include a series of adapted and painted purple martin bird houses, installed in Swansea for Art Across the City 2014.[9] Working with Jacob Cartwright, Nick Jordan has been artist-in-residence at The Manchester Museum and Headlands Centre for the Arts, near San Francisco.

Nick Jordan is the co-author of Alien Invaders, published by Book Works, which takes the form of a guidebook to non-native species found in Britain, and the effects on native wildlife.[10]

Other authored works include Some Mild Peril[11] (Castlefield Gallery, 2004), a curated collection of contemporary artist's drawings, including Nick Crowe, Peter Liversidge, Cathy Lomax, Zoe Mendelson, and David Shrigley; The Audubon Trilogy (Dedecus, 2010), a chapbook and series of short films drawn from the writings of 19th-century artist and frontiersman John James Audubon, following his escapades along the Ohio river and Mississippi river;[12] and Heaven, Hell and Other Places, a documentary on Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The Swedenborg Society.[13]


Filmography

Notes

  1. ↑ "Alien Invaders Brought To Book", Towle, Nick. South Manchester Reporter, 21 September 2006
  2. ↑ "Film Material Soup"
  3. ↑ "Strange and Wonderful" Sandhu, Sukhdev. The New Statesman, 18 December 2006.
  4. ↑ "Swedenborg Short Film Festival 2013"
  5. ↑ "Northern Artists Film Programme"
  6. ↑ "London Short Film Festival"
  7. ↑ "Filmakers Library". Retrieved June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Between Two Rivers". Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  9. ↑ "Art Across the City 2014"
  10. ↑ "Alien Invaders review" The Guardian, Clee, Nicholas. 9 September 2006.
  11. ↑ "Some Mild Peril"
  12. ↑ "The Audubon Trilogy: Fugitive Narratives and the Drama of the Natural World" Jones, T.J, Carbondale Nightlife, July 2010
  13. ↑ "Heaven, Hell and Other Places" Swedenborg Society.

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