| JEREMY
GORDON |
| ARTIST'S STATEMENT — PROCESS AND MEDIUM EMPLOYED |
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. |
| FOR SALE |
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1991
Egg and oil on panel
59.5 x 90.0 cm
Signed and dated lower centre
$14,000 (framed) |
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SHIFTING SANDS
1981
Egg and oil on panel
74.0 x 100.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left
$10,000 (framed) |
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| CHRONOLOGY |
| 1947 |
Born in Adelaide, South Australia |
| 1961-62 |
Fine Arts, South Australian School of Art |
| 1966-68 |
Private tuition from Sir William Dobell who encouraged going abroad |
| 1963-65 |
East Sydney Technical College |
| 1966 |
Hammersmith Art School, London |
| 1966-68 |
Byam Shaw School, London - awarded Painting Prize and Diploma of
Fine Art |
| Solo Exhibitions |
| 1971 |
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; Max Adams Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1975 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1977 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1978 |
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide |
| 1979 |
Commonwealth Institute, London; Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1982 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1987 |
Tynte Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1988 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1991 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| 1993 |
BMG ART, Adelaide |
| 1994 |
Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
| Group Exhibitions |
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Alice Spring Prize Exhibition, Alice Springs |
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Avant Galleries, Melbourne |
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Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney |
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CAS Temporary Exhibition, Adelaide |
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Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle |
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Edwin Pollard Gallery, London |
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Festival of Life, Festival Exhibition, Adelaide |
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Inaugural Exhibition of South Australian Artists, Festival Centre
Gallery, Adelaide |
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Invitation Exhibition, Fremantle |
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Kym Bonython Gallery, Adelaide |
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Max Adams Gallery, Adelaide |
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Real Super Real Exhibition, Albury Wadonga Regional Gallery |
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South Australian Gallery Centenary Exhibition, Adelaide |
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Sydney Opera House Galleries Exhibition, Sydney |
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10 South Australian Artists, Royal Society Exhibition, Adelaide |
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Travelodge Prize Exhibition, Melbourne |
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Tynte Gallery, Adelaide |
| 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, p.22. |
| Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1970-1975, Rigby,
1976, plate 104. |
| Vantage, Volume 1, No. 1, 1977, front cover. |
| Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1975-1980, Rigby,
1980, plate 39. |
| Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong
Publications, 1984, p.202. |
| McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and
Unwin, 1984, p.512. |
| Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong
Publications, 1990. |
| McCulloch, Susan and McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian
Art, Allen and Unwin, 1994, p.512. |
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