Nick Jordan (artist)
| Nick Jordan | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Nick Jordan at Horseshoe Lake, Illinois | |
| Born |
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 won a number of awards, with screenings at many international film festivals, including BFI London Film Festival;Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; Kassel Dokfest; Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF); São Paulo International Short Film Festival; VIS Vienna; Portland International Film Festival; IndiLisboa; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Interfilm Berlin.
Nick Jordan is the co-director of Between Two Rivers (2012)[4] – a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois. The film was awarded Best Film at Big Muddy Film Festival (2012) and River’s Edge International Film Festival (2012) [5]
Publications include 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.[6]
Other publications include Some Mild Peril[7] (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, following his escapades along the Ohio river and Mississippi river;[8] and Heaven, Hell and Other Places, a documentary on Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The Swedenborg Society.[9]
Filmography
- 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
- ↑ "Alien Invaders Brought To Book", Towle, Nick. South Manchester Reporter, 21 September 2006
- ↑ "Film Material Soup"
- ↑ "Strange and Wonderful" Sandhu, Sukhdev. The New Statesman, 18 December 2006.
- ↑ "Between Two Rivers". Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ↑ "Filmakers Library". Retrieved June 2014.
- ↑ "Alien Invaders review" The Guardian, Clee, Nicholas. 9 September 2006.
- ↑ "Some Mild Peril"
- ↑ "The Audubon Trilogy: Fugitive Narratives and the Drama of the Natural World" Jones, T.J, Carbondale Nightlife, July 2010
- ↑ "Heaven, Hell and Other Places" Swedenborg Society.
External links
- Artist's homepage
- Nick Jordan interview, Clermont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival, 2016
- Nick Jordan interview, Aesthetica
- BFI: great shorts from around the world
- Introducing Nick Jordan, Art Across the City
- Headlands Artists-in-Residence
- Between Two Rivers
- Book Works
- imdb.com
- Alchemy fellowship
- Vimeo page