Nick Jordan is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK.[1] 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).[2] Nick Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright, see Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan.

Nick Jordan
Nick Jordan at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017
Born	(1967-07-28) 28 July 1967 (age 55) Chigwell, Essex, England
Nationality	British
Education	Manchester Metropolitan University Nottingham Trent University
Occupation	Artist
Website	nickjordan.info

The artist's practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing film, drawing, painting, photography, objects, publications and collaboration, and explores the relationship between the natural world and social or cultural histories.[3]

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]

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.[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]

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); North Yorkshire Public Archives (UK); Newcastle University (UK) / Stasi Archives (Germany).

Filmography

(C&J = Cartwright & Jordan)

• The Open Secret, 2022 (C&J)
• Swalesong, 2022 (C&J)
• Mushroom Hunting in the Forest, 2022
• The Unofficial Countryside, 2021 (C&J)
• The Wild Enclosed, 2021 (C&J)
• The Language of Hands, 2021
• Rare Frequencies, 2020
• Welcome to Metropolis, 2020 (C&J)
• Natural Hosts, 2020
• Wurstundgritzmitbrutti, 2020
• Concrete Forms of Resistance, 2019
• Kobbwebjar, 2018
• Stratum, 2018 (C&J)
• STRATA, 2018 (C&J)
• Intentional Community: The Art of Living & the Science of Life, 2017 (co-director Clara Casian)
• Thought Broadcasting, 2017
• 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

External links

• Artist's homepage
• Nick Jordan interview, Clermont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival, 2017
• 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
• Nick Jordan at IMDb
• Alchemy fellowship
• Vimeo page