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 ; ICA ; Kunstmuseum ; Musée du quai Branly ; Whitstable Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival ; Portland International Film Festival; Haus der Kulturen ; State Darwin Museum ; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; São Paulo International Short Film Festival ; Kassel Dokfest ; Documenta. 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 social or cultural histories.
Nick Jordan is the co-director of Between Two Rivers – a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois. The film was awarded Best Film at Big Muddy Film Festival and River's Edge International Film Festival
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 School of Integrative Social Research.
The artist's 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.
Other publications include Some Mild Peril ;The Audubon Trilogy, 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; and Heaven, Hell and Other Places, a documentary on Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The Swedenborg Society.
Artist residences & commissioned projects include Headlands Center for the Arts, ; Arts & Heritage ; The National Trust ; The Manchester Museum, ; Book Works ; LOCWS Art Across the City ; ICA ; Art Gene ; British Society of Aesthetics.

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