JEREMY GORDON ARTIST'S STATEMENT My methods of tempera painting vary, but all my tempera paintings are built of multiple layers of pigment bound, or tempered, with egg yolk or an egg and oil emulsion. A straight egg tempera painting is made up of small brush strokes in layers. Pure egg tempera does not lend itself to blending as readily as oil paint and traditionally the surface is built by hatching and cross hatching. My paintings in egg and oil tempera are built of multiple layers of pigment tempered with egg, egg and oil emulsions, oil glazes and oil paint. This is a more flexible medium and behaves differently optically to egg tempera because of the introduction of oil. The oils used vary and resins are sometimes added. The panels for tempera painting are coated with nine or ten layers of gesso. Gesso is calcium carbonate (whiting) mixed with rabbit skin glue. This makes a very stable ground and the many layers of the gesso also have an effect on the optics of the painting. Tempera on gesso is one of the oldest mediums for making paintings. It's longevity is well known. The combination of the layers of the gesso ground and the many layers of pigment variously bound build up luminosity of colour. Jeremy Gordon's website. CHRONOLOGY 1947 - Born in Adelaide, South Australia 1961-1962 - Fine Arts, South Australian School of Art 1962-1963 - Private tuition from Sir William Dobell who encouraged going abroad 1963 - 1965 - East Sydney Technical College, Sydney under Sir William Dobell 1966 - Hammersmith Art School, London 1966-1968 - Byam Shaw School, London - awarded Painting Prize and Diploma of Fine Art SIGNIFICANT EXHIBITIONS 1971 - Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; Max Adams Gallery, Adelaide 1975, 1977 - Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1978 - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide 1979 - Commonwealth Institute, London; Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1982 - Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1987 - Tynte Gallery, Adelaide 1988, 1991 - Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1993 - BMG ART, Adealide 1994 - Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney REPRESENTED BHP Collection, Melbourne Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Art and Australia, Volume 9, No. 1, 1971 Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1970-1975, Rigby, 1976 Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1975-1980, Rigby, 1980 Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong Publications, 1984 Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong Publications, 1990 McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, 1984 McCulloch, Susan and McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, 1994 Vantage, Volume 1, No. 1, 1977, cover