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);
Kunstmuseum (Bonn);
Musée du quai Branly (Paris); Whitstable Biennale;
BFI London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival founded in 1957 and held in the United Kingdom, running for two weeks in October with co-operation from the British Film Institute. It screens more than 300 films, documentaries and shor ...
;
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Encounters Film Festival is a short film, animation and VR festival in Bristol, England. Based in Bristol, Encounters runs a six-day festival in September and its main venues are Watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been ...
;
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF); Portland International Film Festival; Haus der Kulturen (Berlin); State Darwin Museum (Moscow);
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil); Kassel Dokfest (Germany); Documenta (Madrid). Nick Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright, see
Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan
Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan (artist) are visual artists and film-makers based in Manchester, UK. They have been collaborating since 2003. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at Innsbruck International Biennale; Kunstmu ...
.
The artist's practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing film, drawing, prints, painting, photography, sculptural objects, publications and collaboration, and explores the relationship between the
natural world and social or cultural histories.
Nick Jordan is the co-director 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 Best Film at Big Muddy Film Festival (2012) and River's Edge International Film Festival (2012)
In 2017, Nick Jordan co-directed a mid-length feature documentary, Intentional Community, made in collaboration with artist Clara Casian. The film is a portrait of
Braziers Park
Braziers Park is a Grade II* country house and estate on the edge of Ipsden - a small village near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England - housing a secular intentional community and the School of Integrative Social Research. It has also been used ...
School of Integrative Social Research.
The artist's publications include ''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.
Other publications include ''Some Mild Peril'' (Castlefield Gallery, 2004);''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
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
Ohio river
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
and
Mississippi river; and ''Heaven, Hell and Other Places'', a documentary on
Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The
Swedenborg Society.
"Heaven, Hell and Other Places"
Swedenborg Society.
Artist residences & commissioned projects include Headlands Center for the Arts, (San Francisco, USA); Thackray Museum of Medicine (UK); Arts & Heritage (UK); The National Trust (UK); The Manchester Museum, (UK); Book Works (London); LOCWS Art Across the City (Swansea); ICA (London); Art Gene (UK); British Society of Aesthetics (UK); North Yorkshire Public Archives (UK); Newcastle University (UK) / Stasi Archives (Germany).
Filmography
''(C&J = Cartwright & Jordan)''
*The Entangled Forest, 2023
*Genetic Sequences, 2022
*The Open Secret, 2022 (C&J)
*Swalesong, 2022 (C&J)
*Mushroom Hunting in the Woods, 2022
*The Unofficial Countryside, 2021 (C&J)
*The Wild Enclosed, 2021 (C&J)
*The Language of Hands, 2021
*Rare Frequencies, 2020
*Welcome to Metropolis, 2020 (C&J)
*Natural Hosts, 2020
*Wurstundgritzmitbrutti, 2020
*Concrete Forms of Resistance, 2019
*Kobbwebjar, 2018
*Stratum, 2018 (C&J)
*STRATA, 2018 (C&J)
*Intentional Community: The Art of Living & the Science of Life, 2017 (co-director Clara Casian)
*Thought Broadcasting, 2017
*MERZMONGO, 2016
*Last Acre, 2016 (C&J)
*The Atom Station, 2015
*The Emotions of Others, 2015 (C&J)
*Off the Trail, 2015 (C&J)
*Headlands Lookout, 2014 (C&J)
*The Rising, 2014
*Nature House Inc., 2013
*Between Two Rivers, 2012 (C&J)
*American Water, 2011 (C&J)
*Monument to Swedenborg, 2010 (C&J)
*Heaven, Hell and Other Places, 2010 (C&J)
*Confluence, 2010 (C&J)
*How the air feels to the birds, 2009
*The Reapers, 2009 (C&J)
*Cairo, 2009 (C&J)
*West Point, 2008 (C&J)
*New Madrid, 2008 (C&J)
*How The Cutter Works, 2008
*Eight Themes for the Golden Record, 2008 (C&J)
*Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), 2007
*Descriptions & Sketches of Some Remarkable Oaks, 2007 (C&J)
*Let the user speak next, 2006
*Prequel, 2006
*William Carlos Williams, 2005
*Edgar, 2005 (C&J)
*Havanazephyr, 2005
*Grubber, 2004 (C&J)
*12 Dogs, 2004
*Notes on the Cinematograph, 2004
*Highwater Everywhere Part 2, 2003
*Fury, 2003
*Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, 2003
*Another Road Movie, 2003
*A Road Movie, 2003
*Roused By My Epilepsy, 2003
*Transistor Man, 2003
Notes
External links
Artist's homepageNick Jordan interview, Clermont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival, 2017Nick Jordan interview, Clermont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival, 2016Nick Jordan interview, AestheticaBFI: great shorts from around the worldIntroducing Nick Jordan, Art Across the CityHeadlands Artists-in-ResidenceBetween Two RiversBook Works
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Vimeo page
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English contemporary artists
British video artists
English film directors
21st-century English painters
English male painters
1967 births
Living people
21st-century English male artists