Nick Jordan - Biography

Born 1967
Lives and works in Manchester, UK

Education

2002 - 2004
MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
1989 - 92
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
1986 - 88
HND Film & Video Production, West Sussex College of Art

Exhibitions & Screenings

C&J = Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan
cat = catalogue

2010
Solo:
Cairo: The breaking up of the ice, Cornerhouse, Manchester (C&J)
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan Retrospective, Cinephilia, London Short Film Festival (C&J)
The Audubon Trilogy, Cornerhouse cinema, Manchester (C&J)
Group:
Night of the Living Docs, London Short Film Festival (C&J)
Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg House, Bloomsbury, London (C&J)
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Gallery, London (C&J)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA (C&J)
Heaven, Hell and Other Places, Swedenborg Hall, London (C&J)
7th London Short Film Festival (C&J)
One Minute (vol 3), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Video Progetto, Grand Union, Birmingham & 26cc, Rome, Italy (C&J)
Cairo Calling, Ace of Cups, Cairo, Illinois, USA (C&J)
The Audubon Trilogy, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, USA (C&J)
Norwegian Wood, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales (C&J)

2009
Documenta Madrid, Academia de Cine, Madrid, Spain (C&J) cat
Cannes Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes, France (C&J)
A Secret Understanding, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
6th London Short Film Festival, ICA, London (C&J)
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
The Golden Record: Sounds of Earth, The Collection, Lincoln; G39, Cardiff (C&J)
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art and Animal/Human Studies, Peninsular Gallery, University of Plymouth (C&J)
Complex Financial Instruments, S1 Salon 09, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (C&J)
Codec/x, APO, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Fear & Optimism, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Short Cuts, Brighton Festival (C&J)
One Minute Vol. 3, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Germany; The Marseille Project Gallery, France
54th Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland (C&J)
Voices From The Water, The 4th International Film Festival on Water, Bangalore, India (C&J)

2008
Solo:
MoNO - The Museum of Native Oaks, The Manchester Museum (C&J)
West Point and New Madrid, Bird Gallery, Manchester Museum (C&J)
Group:
5th London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Videonale 11, INSA Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea cat
Saison Video 2008, Lycée Jean Rostand, Roubaix, France cat
Director's Lounge, Filmtheater Scala, Berlin (C&J)
PAM, MOV-in Gallery, College of Santa Fe, USA
Let the user speak next, PureScreen 20, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (C&J)
Würstundgritz National Historic Trail, Artstranspennine08, Manchester (C&J)
Documente, Gato Vadio, Oporto, Portugal
Entr' act, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
One Minute (vol 2): Artprojx Gallery, London; The Marseille Project Gallery, France; Red Gallery, Hull
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
Scope Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Souvenirs From Earth, Cologne Art Fair; Diva Art Fair, Paris
Oslo Screen Festival, Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway (C&J)
Darwin's Eye, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris (C&J)
Darwin’s Bicentennial: Art, Science & the Origin of Species, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA (C&J)
3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival, Songzhuang, China (C&J) cat
A&O, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin (C&J)
Norwegian Wood, Liverpool Biennial, John Lennon Airport, Liverpool
Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art and Animal/Human Studies, Unit 2 Gallery, London Met University (C&J)
Night of the Owl, A Foundation, Liverpool (C&J)
PureScreen #3 DVD, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2007
Solo:
Rub-a-dub-dub, Projektraum exex, St.Gallen, Switzerland (C&J + Stephen McNeilly)
Group:
Beck's Fusions, curated by ICA, touring to London, Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany cat
Videonale 11, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Alchemy Artists, The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester (C&J)
North and South, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland (C&J) cat
Asia-Europe Mediations Biennale, National Museum in Poznan, Poland
Exploring Concrete, La Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville, Lille, France
East-West, Space 72, Vervriers, Belgium
Videoformes International, Musée du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, France cat
Non-native Field Recordings, Book Works Chapbook launch, Hoxton Hall, London (C&J)
Entr' acte, Athens International Art Fair, Greece
Zemos98_9 International Film Festival, Seville, Spain cat
Bandits-Mages Festival , Bourges, France
Loop-Pool, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany cat
Scanners: The 2007 New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
Art Radio, Cornerhouse, Manchester (C&J)
Capalbio Cinema, Capalbio, Italy
Fact vs Fiction, Olhares Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Lange Nacht der Kultur, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
The 60th Show, Bend in the River, Gainsborough (C&J)

2006
Solo:
Godwottery, Transition Gallery, London (C&J)
Group:
Halloween Short Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London
Directors Lounge, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
Point of View, Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporain (LAAC), Dunkerque, France cat
What’s About, IUT Lille, Tourcoing, France cat
Parcours #1, ESAAT, Roubaix, France cat
Traverser la Ville #1, ESAAT, Roubaix, France cat
Parcours #2, Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Cambrai, France cat
Videoformes International, Musée du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, France cat
Zemos98_8 International Film Festival (Official Section), Seville, Spain cat
Videonale, Kino Union, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Space, Southwell Artspace, Nottingham (C&J)
Somewhere Else, Overexposed, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Perpetual Art Machine (PAM), Scope Art Fair, New York
Saison Vidéo, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France cat
PrintROOM, Bureau Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
Figures of Motion, Künstlerhaus, Castle Plüschow, Germany (C&J)
Intro Out, Thessaloniki, Greece
Artists Video Archive, Project Space, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
StoryRooms, DVD launch, Mint Lounge, Manchester cat
Trailer Park, Guerrilla Zoo, London
Name Festival, Lille, France
Split Film Festival, Croatia cat
51st Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland cat
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield
Scope Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
Art Basel, Miami, USA
Festivalmau 06 - Savagery and Animal Life, A.R.C., Faro, Portugal
Static in Motion - Architecture in Film & Video, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

2005
Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany cat
Zemos98_7 International Film Festival (official section), Seville, Spain cat
Boundless, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Myymala2, Helsinki, Finland
The Last Picture Show, Grand Cinema, Clitheroe (C&J)
On What There Is, Spectacle, Birmingham
Videolab, Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra, Portugal
Take291, 291 Gallery, London
Zeitgeist International Film Festival, Overcooked Cinema, San Francisco, USA
Transnatura, Botanical Gardens, University of Coimbra, Portugal
PureScreen #01 touring programme:
Kings Arms, Salford
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Itau Cultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
AntiMatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada The Residence, London
Radiator Festival, Nottingham
Gang Show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Bring Your Own Video Show, Waygood International Artfayre, Newcastle
Continental Drift, New Brunswick, Canada
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
A Haunting, PureScreen, Manchester Metropolitan University (C&J)
PrintRoom, Hotel Maria, Hoorn, Netherlands
24 Hours, Filmhaus, Nuremberg, Germany
Trailerpark, Cineworld, Cardiff
10th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, Paris, France

2004
Solo:
The Goose Fair, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
Group:
Infinite Rorschach, Kuvagalleria, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Do Something, Floating IP, Manchester
Best In Show, The Embassy, Edinburgh
Publish & Be Damned, International 3, Manchester
L'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent, Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), Spain cat
We Go Round And Round In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire, Liverpool Biennial
Send & Receive, Winnipeg Film Group, Canada
VI Internacional Arte Digital, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba cat
Screen, Belgrade Festival, Serbia
BikeBoston Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA
Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Zemos98 International Film Festival (Official Section), Seville, Spain cat
Commonwealth Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester
WRO, Wroclaw, Poland
24Hr Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
Antimatter, Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Machinista, CCA, Glasgow
Pointless Cinema, The Chateau, Glasgow
Projection Room, Candid Arts Trust, London
Zeitgeist, M.A.G, New Orleans, USA
The Electronic Image, Stoke Film Theatre
Kinokaze, Cinema REX, Belgrade, Serbia
GAGE, Hull Time Based Arts
Dialogues 2004 Festival, Edinburgh
Switch Art Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Machinista, Glasgow & Perm City, Russia
Purescreen 5: The Moon Will Save Our Ass, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2003
Solo:
Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, The All Year Round Club, Manchester
This World Can't Stand Long, The Temple, Manchester
Group:
CODEC/X - New British Video & Sound Art, (co-curated by Nick Jordan), touring internationally
We Go Round And Round In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire, Comme Ca Gallery, New York
Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester
WORM, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam
Saturnalia, Edinburgh College of Art
Cinema Vortex, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami
Microcinema International, Main Street, Houston
MiniCine, Curzon Cinema, Soho, London
Birnam Arts Intitute, Dunkeld, Scotland
Twoeightone, Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester
Lux Open - New British Artists' Film & Video, Royal College of Art, London
Yellow Pages, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel, Switzerland
Pavillion, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery
MiniCine, Curzon Soho Cinema, London
Places & Spaces, Tate Liverpool University Network, Chapman Gallery
Eve of Destruction, International 3, Manchester
Museum Nacht, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
LAAA, Galley 825, Los Angeles
Echo Film Festival, Slovenia
Experimental Film Today (conference), University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Eyeball Haemorrhage, Kino at Night & Day, Manchester
PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The Listening Room, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Highwater Everywhere Part 2, St Phillips Church, Mayfest, Salford
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester

2002
Group:
Night of the Infra-Terrestrials, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London
Alectro Ecoustic, DADI, Manchester
Blackout, Ashton Court Festival, Bristol
Life Is Good In Manchester, Annual Programme internet project
Die Kunst Golden Jubilee Video Showcase, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Lord Mongo Presents, Tmesis, Manchester
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester
Alectro Ecoustic, Centro, Manchester
Britzcarraldo, Big Hands, Manchester

2001
Group:
Builders Arms Biennial, International 3, Manchester
Sho1, Salford
Bluescreen, IDEA, Manchester
Festival of Briton, Roadhouse, Manchester
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester
Lord Mongo, Night & Day, Manchester

2000
Solo:
The Scheme of Things, MART visual arts festival, Manchester cat
One More Thing (C&J + David Mackintosh) cat
- Cable Street Gallery, London
- Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester
Group:
Chapel Street Open, Salford
Private View, Velvet, Manchester
Cafe Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery
The Gallery, Liverpool
Apart, with Paul Cordwell, Bury Art Gallery & Museum

Authored works and curated projects

The Audubon Trilogy: Delineations of American Scenery & Manners, publication, 2010 (C&J)
MoNO - The Museum of Native Oaks, The Manchester Museum, 2008 (C&J)
Alien Invaders: a guide to non-native species of the Britisher Isles, publication, Book Works, 2006 (C&J)
StoryRooms, DVD catalogue, Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, 2005
The Last Picture Show, exhibition, Grand Cinema, Clitheroe, 2005
Some Mild Peril, publication, 2004
This World Can't Stand Long, audio cd, 2003
Codec/x - New British Video & Sound Art, touring DVD co-curated with Dave Griffiths, 2003
The Scheme Of Things, exhibition, 1999
One More Thing, publication, 1998
Don't Sign Anything, publication, 1997

Filmography

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

Awards & Fellowships

Special Commendation, Best of Manchester Awards, Urbis, 2009 (C&J)
Cannes Short Film Corner selection: The Reapers, Northwest Vision and Media, 2009 (C&J)
Wallflower Press Best Experimental Film: ‘New Madrid’, London Short Film Festival, ICA, 2009 (C&J)
FourDocs Bursary: 'The Reapers', Channel 4, 2008 (C&J)
Alchemy Fellowship, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2007/08 (C&J)
Visual Arts New Commissions award, Arts Council England, 2006 (C&J)
Golden Shears Demonstration, Best In Show, The Embassy, Edinburgh (C&J)
ICA Best Film Award: 'Fury', Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London, 2004
Grand Jury Prize - Best Film: 'Fury', Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2003
Visual Arts Publication award, Arts Council England, 2004
New Media Arts Production Award, Arts Council England, 2003
Visual Arts Touring Exhibitions Award, Arts Council England, 1998
Touring Exhibition Award, North West Arts Board, 1998
Exhibition Award, Manchester City Council, 1998
Exhibition Award, North West Arts Board, 1998

Recent reviews & articles

Alien Invaders, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, March 21st, 2009
Alchemy, preview, Artists Newsletter, April, 2008
Flux Space, Flux Magazine, March 2008
MoNO, Metro News, Feb 12th, 2008
MoNO, South Manchester Reporter, Feb 12th, 2008
MoNO, preview, BBC Manchester, Jan 22nd, 2008
Beck's Fusions, preview & interview, The Times, Sept 1st, 2007
Beck's Fusions, preview, The Guide, The Guardian, Sept 1st, 2007
North & South, review, Art Monthly, Sept 2007
Rub-a-dub-dub, review, St Galler Taggblatt, May 24th, 2007
Alchemy Fellowship, article, Artists Newlsetter, March 2007
Alchemy Fellowship, feature, Metro News, Feb 20th, 2007
Alien Invaders, review, New Statesman, December 18th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, Lab Times, Issue 2, Dec 2006
Alien Invaders, review, Garageland, Issue 3 - Nature, October 2006
Alien Invaders, feature, South Manchester Reporter, Sept 29th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, The Guardian, September 9th 2006
Alien Invaders, review, The Saatchi Gallery, editorial, Sept 9th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, New Scientist, August 26th 2006
Alien Invaders, book launch, Metro News, July 6th 2006
Alien Invaders, news, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 81, June 2006
würstundgritz feature & interview, Garageland, Issue 1, Jan 2006
würstundgritz feature, The Mix Manchester, Issue 1, February 2006
Here Be Dragons, Zoo Art Fair 2005 Review, Critical Friend, Issue 3, 2005
On What There Is, review, Artists Newsletter, September 2005
On What There Is, review, Arty, August 2005
Videonale 10, review, Kunstforum, June 2005
Liverpool Biennial, review, Art Monthly, November 2004
The Goose Fair, preview, The Guide, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, pick of the week, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, City Life, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, Metro, April 2004
Some Mild Peril, review, City Life, July 2004
Some Mild Peril, review, Flux, March 2004
ICA Halloween Short Film Festival, review, Time Out, January 2004
Lord Mongo - Roused By My Epilepsy, review & DVD, Product, Winter 2003
We Go Round & Round In The Night…, preview, Flux, December 2003
Aperto Manchester, Flash Art, October 2003