COL JORDAN
Born Merrylands, NSW 1935
EDUCATION
1955 Graduated Balmain Teachers College, Sydney
1963 Awarded Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 ‘Fieldworks’, Mossenson Galleries in association with Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Melbourne
Survey Exhibition, Mossensin Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2016 ‘From Venice’, SPOT81, Sydney
2014 ‘Col Jordan ‘ Arcana’, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2013 ‘ The Guildford Sculptures & Related Paintings’, PeterPinson Gallery at Danks, Sydney
‘Col Jordan - Arcana’, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2011 ‘Edge and Paradox’, Peter Pinson Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
‘Col Jordan - An Active Edge’, A Retrospective Exhibition, Wollongong City Gallery,
Wollongong, NSW
‘A Play on White’, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2010 ‘A Play on White’, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2009 ‘Numbers and Other Spaces, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA
‘Numbers and Other Spaces, Peter Pinson Gallery, Woollahra, NSW
2008 ‘Double Vision’, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2007 ‘Circling Back’, A Retrospective, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2006 Harrison Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2003 New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
1999 ‘Crossing Borders’, Gallery Savah, Sydney, NSW
1997 College of Fine Arts Gallery, UNSW, Sydney, NSW
1996 Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1995 ‘Edge and Paradox - A Retrospective 1965 - 1995’, Lewers Bequest and Penrith City Art Gallery, Penrith, NSW
Olsen Carr Gallery, Sydney, NSW
235 Nelson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994 ‘Edge and Paradox - The Art of Col Jordan 1965 - 1993’, Bathurst City Art Gallery,
NSW
1990 Bloomfield Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1986 Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1984 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1982 Quentin Gallery, Perth, WA
1981 Stanfield Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
1980 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1979 Stairs Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1978 Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
1977 Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
1976 Solander Galleries, ACT
1975 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1974 Macquarie Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1973 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1972 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1971 Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
1970 Wollongong University, Wollongong, NSW
1969 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1967 Strines Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1966 Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Art Society Exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth
and Brisbane
2019 Michelle Perry Fine Arts @ 109, Sydney, NSW
2018 ‘The Field Revisited’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
‘The Calleen Art Award’, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
‘Abstraction’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2017 ‘Sweeney and Strines’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Vic
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Mossenson Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2015 ‘Popism’, Peter Pinson Gallery @ SPOT81, Sydney, NSW
‘..And the Piano has been Drinking’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
2013 ‘Speculative Spaces’, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Noosa Regional Galleries, Qld
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
‘The Abstract Canvas’, Wilson Street Gallery at Danks, Sydney, NSW
2011 Col Jordan & Ken Reinhard, Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2010 Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Qld
City of Albany Prize, City of Albany Art Gallery, Alabany, WA
2009 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Qld
‘Reductive’, A.C.G.A. Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
‘After the Field’, Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
‘Modern Colourists’, Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 Col Jordan, Peter Pinson & Emanuel Raft, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2007 ‘Poets Paint Worlds’, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2002 ‘Master Class’, Cube Gallery (Stella Downer Fine Art), Adelaide, SA
‘Pushing Abstraction’, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
1998 ‘Silver: 25the Anniversary exhibition’, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW
‘The Niland Collection’, Lewers bequest and Penrith City Art Gallery, penrith, NSW
1993 ‘Vitue’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1992 ‘Manu et Mente’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1986 ‘Pure Abstraction’, Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1984 ‘Works in Progress’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1983 ‘Selections’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1979 Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
1976 Western Australia Institute of Technology, Perth, WA
1973 ‘Young Australian Painters’, Auckland, New Zealand
Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, Vic
1971 ‘Australian Art’, Papua New Guinea
1970 ‘Miniaturen 70 Interntional, France & West Germany
Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, Vic
‘The Field’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1969 ‘The Field’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
‘Young Painters Biennale’, Tokyo, Japan
1968 Transfield prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
‘Form in Action;, New Zealand
1967 ‘Contemprary Art Society - Australian Painting’, Los Angeles and San Francisco, USA
Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, Vic
Transfield Prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1966 Survey Exhibitions, Sydney NSW and Melbourne Vic
AWARDS
2010 Cossack Art Award
1973 Wollongong Art Purchase Prize
1971 Flotto Lauro Travelling Art Scholarship
Gold Coast Purchase Prize
1970 TAA ‘Australian’ Prize
1969 RAS Prize
1968 Muswellbrook Prize
Maitland Prize
1965 Wollongong Prize
COLLECTIONS
Public Collections - National Art Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery; Ballarat Art Gallery; Bathurst Regional Gallery; Broken Hill City Art Gallery; Lewers Bequest and Penrith City Art Gallery; Muswellbrook Art Gallery; New England Regional Art Museum; Newcastle City Art Gallery; Tarrawarra Museum of Art; Wollongong City Art Gallery; University Collections - University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Western Australia, University of Canberra, University of Technology Sydney, Western Australian Institute of Technology, University of Wollongong, Curtin University, Murdoch University; Corporate Collections - Commonwealth Bank; IBM; Westpac Bank; BHP; Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pinson, Peter
"Col Jordan-Edge and Paradox", Sydney, 10group, 2010.
Beare, Michael
"Col Jordan -An Active Edge", Wollongong, Wollongong City Gallery, 2011
Rumley , Katrina ,’Fifty Plus- Half a century of collecting at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre’
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, 2008.
Hagger, David,’Reductive’, David Hagger, Melbourne, 2009.
Lawson, Amanda, ‘A Place for Art- the University of Wollongong Art Collection’, University of Wollongong Press, 2012.
Davis, Rhonda, Hargraves, Kate & Janizewski, Leonard, ‘Sixties Explosion’, Macquarie University Gallery, 2012.
Davis, Emily & Prunetti, Laetitia, ’Melbourne Art Fair 2012’, The Melbourne Art Foundation.
Small, Alison, ‘Art and artists of Australia’, South Melbourne, Macmillan 1981.
Germaine, Max, ‘Artists and galleries of Australia’, Boollarong, 1984.
Horton Mervyn (ed), ‘Australian painters of the seventies’, Sydney, Ure Smith 1975.
Luck, R.K., ‘A guide to modern Australian Painting’, Melbourne, Sun Books 1969.
Scarlet, Kenneth, ‘Australian sculptors’, West Melbourne, Thomas Nelson 1980.
McCulloch, Alan, ‘Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2nd edition’, Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1984.
Bonython, Kim (ed), ‘Modern Australian Painting - 1950 to 1975’, Adelaide 1975.
Bonython, Kim (ed), ‘Modern Australian Painting - 1975 -1980’, Adelaide, 1980
Gleeson, James, ‘Modern painters 1931 to 1970’, Sydney, Lansdowne Press 1971.
Horton, Mervyn, ‘Present day art in Australia’, Sydney, Ure Smith 1969.
Pinson, Peter, ‘Weaving a paradox, Sydney’, Macquarie Galleries 1980.
Drury, Neville (ed), ‘New art seven, profiles in contempo’