Nick Jordan (artist)

Nick Jordan (born 1967) is a British visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK. Jordan works mostly with documentary film, as well as publications. The artist's work explores connections between social, cultural, and natural ecologies.

Work
Jordan's hybrid documentaries are filmed and edited by the artist, and often feature cooperative input from practitioners working in life sciences, such as ecology and botany, as well as from the fields of anthropology and healthcare.

His short films include The Atom Station, made in Iceland, featuring environmental activist Ómar Ragnarsson; Thought Broadcasting; The Entangled Forest, featuring ecologist Suzanne Simard; Rare Frequencies and Genetic Sequencies, made with genetic counsellors and clinical psychologists.

Jordan's work has been shown at international galleries, museums and film festivals. Solo shows include Mental State Signs (Paradise Works, 2018) and Natural Interaction (HOME, 2023).

Group exhibitions include Innsbruck International Biennial; Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonn; British Textile Biennial; Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco. International film festivals include CPH:DOX, Copenhagen; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Tampere Film Festival, and his films have been the subject of special focus programmes, including at Minimalen, Norway, HOME, UK, and London Short Film Festival, UK.

Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright (see Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan). Their films include Between Two Rivers (2012), a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois, which won best film awards at River's Edge Film Festival, Kentucky, and Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois.

Jordan has curated a number of group exhibitions and artist film screenings. He is the curator of Braziers International Film Festival, an annual three-day festival held at Braziers Park each summer.

Publications
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 Larksong chapbook and vinyl soundtrack album (British Textile Biennial/Folklore Tapes, 2023); 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.