b.1942 Yorkshire, studied
at Wakefield College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Goldsmiths
College, University of London. Was leader of Fine Art provision
at Norwich School of Art and Design before moving to Central
California in 2002. Currently Chair of the Art Department
at California State University, Stanislaus and spends the
summer months back at his home in North Norfolk UK.
Gordon Senior’s output is characterized by an apparently
irresolvable tension between the human and the natural, between
an environment with its own rhythms and energies and the
heavy hand of human intervention.
(Extract from Gordon Senior’s recent catalog text,
Tools of Unknown Use and Other Works by Professor David Olivant) |
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Gordon makes both drawings and sculptural
works. He is preoccupied with the relationships between
humans, animals and birds, and with the earth that we all
share. He addresses our common loss of relationship with
landscape. His drawings are forged from the earth itself:
clay and other earth coloured drawing materials. The bird
drawings are poetic and illusionistic, telescoping the
viewer into nature. The drawings of objects relate more
closely to his constructed works such as his very extensive
assemblage of constructed and found objects “Hand
Tools of Unknown Use.”
Gordon Senior has exhibited widely in the UK, the USA and
internationally.
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