James Gordon

My loves include Bob my dog, violets, birds, vodka, night skies, morning skies, pink, white objects of porcelain, roast chicken,horses, skeletons, really all flowers , all dogs , donkeys , elephants, ants, bees ,horror movies , gruesome books and my scalpels & scissors.

At school I was hopeless at everything except Descriptive Geometry and gained glowing marks and comments ....there were no art classes ,so I could do perfectly measure perspectives of any known object but my 'talent' to do anything else in a creative area were unrecognised .
I was constantly drawing and snipping as a kid and after leaving school went 3 times to an art class at East Sydney College and actually got slightly drunk in the back of the room with a few others and learnt practically nothing.
So I guess I'm self taught.

I personally find great long resumes of shows and dates tiresome, however The Tim Olsen Gallery took me into their stable where I stayed happily for for 6 years with 5 very well received solo shows.
Previously I was with a Melbourne gallery and in Sydney around 3 good galleries.
I've shown in group shows in London and was with the fabulous Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong which sadly closed