Clare Gordon
A selection of current work
Inspired by the archaic and ancient, landscape, journeys, dreams and the ordinariness of the everyday, I aim to create and simplify timeless themes; fragmented narratives of past and imagined lives where the complexities are stripped back to search for a kind wordless essence. Ideas of human existence and of being human in this saturated world of ours.
The stillness of a moment captured in time, memories no longer my own but that have a connectivity to a universal other. Figures in a landscape, often more suggestive than representational: displacement or a place found, intimacy, alliance and the unique psychological space that we each encompass. An interest in the conscious/unconscious elements of the mind, world beliefs, myths and symbolism contribute in creating objects and compositions, while the physicality and process in the making unearth new possibilities through textures, layering and the use of colour.
EDUCATION
DipAD Ceramics Edinburgh College of Art,
MA Ceramics and Painting Edinburgh College of Art
Post Graduate Certificate in Education Edinburgh University
Certificate in Group Analysis Institute of Group Analysis, London
Certificate in Humanistic Psychotherapy Spectrum, London
Certificate in Arts and Therapy in Education IATE, London
AWARDS
The Andrew Grant Travel Award
Post Graduate year ECA
Founder of The Hampstead School of Art, 1994, London
Trustee of BAR, Brent Artists Resource, London
Owner of Devign Design, Interior design and project mamgement
SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
New Zealand House Gallery, London
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Kingsgate Gallery, London
Camden School of Art , London
The Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
The Camden Arts Centre, London
FPS, Menier Gallery, London
The Gallery at Willesden Green Library, London
Pure Painting, BAR Gallery
BAR members print Exhibition
Emerge, Electric House, London
Encounters, Queens Parade, London
Chrysalis, Transition, Electric House, London
Ghosts, WGLC Gallery, London
Regeneration, Electric House, London
Humble Origins, Art on Paper, BAR Gallery, London
Art-itecture, London Architecture Festival 2014
Print Show, Brent Artists Resource, London
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Kingsgate Gallery, London
The Oxford Gallery, Oxford
Gallery K, Hampstead, London
New Zealand House Gallery, London
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
The Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh
Leodz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Ministry of Culture, Belgrade, Serbia
Kelvin Grove Museum, Glasgow
Aberdeen University Gallery
Katz Gallery, Mott Street, Manhattan, New York
Celia Coleman Gallery, London
The Polish Institute, London
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Crafts Council Gallery, London
The Scottish Craft Centre, Edinburgh
Henderson’s Gallery, Edinburgh
Lothlorian Book Shop, Edinburgh
57 Gallery, Edinburgh
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
The Stirling Smith Gallery and Museum, Stirling
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:
Western General Hospital Edinburgh
Harrods, Nightsbridge London
Saatchi & Saatchi
Andrew Loyd Webber
Larsson Shipping
Paul Mellon Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
