Jacob Cartwright and

Nick Jordan (artist) Nick Jordan is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK. Jordan's work has been shown widely at international exhibitions and film festivals, including Innsbruck International Biennale (Austria); ICA (London); Kunst ...

are visual artists and film-makers based in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

, UK. They have been collaborating since 2003. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at Innsbruck International Biennale;

Kunstmuseum Bonn The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ...

; Documenta (Madrid); Whitstable Biennale; Haus der Kulturen, Berlin; The New York Film Festival; State Darwin Museum (Moscow); Musée du quai Branly, (Paris). The artists' practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing video, drawing, painting, photography, found objects, publications and events, and often explores the relationship between the

natural world ''Natural World'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British televisi ...

and social or cultural history. Alien Invader- Himalayan Balsam

Cartwright and Jordan are the authors of ''Alien Invaders'', published by

Book Works Book Works is a London-based publisher of books on contemporary visual arts, and print studio specialising in bookbinding, letterpress printing, boxmaking, and printmaking. Established in 1984, it has "the mission to disseminate visual art practice ...

, which takes the form of a guidebook to

non-native species An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there ...

found in Britain, and the effects on native wildlife. Drawing on both scientific fact and cultural anecdote, and offset by the artists' interventions, ten invasive species are categorised and illustrated, including the

American bullfrog The American bullfrog (''Lithobates catesbeianus''), often simply known as the bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is a large true frog native to eastern North America. It typically inhabits large permanent water bodies such as swamps, po ...

giant hogweed ''Heracleum mantegazzianum'', commonly known as giant hogweed, is a monocarpic perennial herbaceous plant in the carrot family Apiaceae. ''H. mantegazzianum'' is also known as cartwheel-flower, giant cow parsley, giant cow parsnip, or hogsb ...

pharaoh ant The pharaoh ant (''Monomorium pharaonis'') is a small (2 mm) yellow or light brown, almost transparent ant notorious for being a major indoor nuisance pest, especially in hospitals. A cryptogenic species, it has now been introduced to vi ...

and

wels catfish The wels catfish ( or ; ''Silurus glanis''), also called sheatfish or just wels, is a large species of catfish native to wide areas of central, southern, and eastern Europe, in the basins of the Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas. It has been introd ...

. Other published works include ''The Audubon Trilogy'', a series of short films drawn from the writings of 19th-century artist and frontiersman

John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...

, following his escapades along the

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and

Mississippi river The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

. The first film in the trilogy,''West Point'', features Audubon's account of large flocks of the now extinct

passenger pigeons The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (''Ectopistes migratorius'') is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word ''passager'', meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habi ...

in the woods of

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. ''New Madrid'', the second film, includes Audubon's experience of the

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, and won the Wall Flower Press award for Best Experimental Film at the 2009 London Short Film Festival. The third film in the trilogy, ''Cairo'', was featured in a joint solo exhibition of their work at

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

, Manchester: ''Cairo: The Breaking up of the Ice". Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan are the directors of ''Between Two Rivers'' (2012) – a feature-length documentary about the town of

Cairo, Illinois Cairo ( ) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County. The city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Fort Defiance, a Civil War camp, was built here in 1862 by Union General Ulysses ...

. The film was awarded the Audience Choice Award at the Big Muddy Film Festival, 2012, and won Best Film at River's Edge International Film Festival, 2012. The artists have undertaken residences and commissions from a variety of institutions and organisations, including the

National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...

; Arts & Heritage; Forma;

; ICA;

The University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

; Art Gene; The Swedenborg Society;

;

Manchester Museum Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road ( A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, ...

;

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

Selected works

Strata-Structures-Transformation-Solidarity

*2022 The Open Secret (short film) *2022 Swalesong (short film) *2021 The Unofficial Countryside (short film) *2021 The Wild Enclosed (short film) *2020 Welcome to Metropolis, 2020 (short film) *2018 'Stratum', (short film) *2018 'STRATA: ''Structures, Transformation, Solidarity''', (solo exhibition and two-screen film) *2016 'Exotic Guests & Alien Invaders' (solo exhibition) *2016 'Last Acre', (short film) *2015 'The Emotions of Others', (short film) *2015 'Off the Trail', (short film) *2014 'Headlands Lookout', (short film) *2012 'Between Two Rivers', (documentary feature film) *2011 'American Water', (short film) *2010 'Cairo: The breaking up of the ice', (solo exhibition)

, Manchester *2010 'The Audubon Trilogy: Cairo, West Point, New Madrid', (publication/DVD)

, Manchester *2010 'Heaven, Hell and Other Places' (documentary) *2010 'Fourteen Interventions' (exhibition) *2009 'The Reapers' (short film) *2009 'Practical Truths' (exhibition installation) *2009 'MoNO, The Museum of Native Oaks' (solo exhibition) *2007 'Rub-a-dub-dub' (solo exhibition, with Stephen McNeilly) *2006 'Alien Invaders' (publication) *2006 'Godwottery' (solo exhibition) *2004 'Some Mild Peril' (publication) *2004 'The Goose Fair' (solo exhibition)

Notes

External links

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