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 (Austria); ICA (London); Kunstmuseum (Bonn); Musée du quai Branly (Paris); Whitstable Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; 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. 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" (2012) – 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) 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" (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; 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, (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). Filmography. "(C&J = Cartwright & Jordan)"