Linda Gordon

Artist's Profile

Recently I have carried out a year-long residency with VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities) in a remote area of rural Northumberland. (2005 - 2006)
Other residencies have included Kamiyama Artist in Residence in Japan (2002) and a Year of the Artist Residency at Seven Sisters Country Park, Sussex (2000).  In 2002 I also received an Arts Council grant towards a research trip in Japan.
I exhibit and carry out projects in this country and abroad; give talks and workshops, and write a lot.  I trained at the Sir John Cass College of Art, London (sculpture and photography), and at the University of Brighton (sculpture).

Artist's Statement

I make site-specific work inspired by nature’s processes of change and transformation.  I immerse myself in the place: become a part of its intrinsic energy.
The work takes many forms but generally speaking I make large installations both indoors and outside.  My materials are earth materials (stone wood soil etc.) often juxtaposed with some man-made factor such as photography video plastics or paint.
I love to be out of doors quiet and alone but also very much enjoy working in public, finding the interaction with visitors a spur to my endeavours.  People like to get involved either by helping out with the making or by a simple ritualistic activity like walking slowly and carefully through the finished work.
Focusing on the immediate surroundings moment by moment the whole process from beginning to end is a way of connecting with the earth - the ground of our being.