Nick Jordan biography

Nick Jordan

Nick Jordan / Biography

Lives and works in Manchester, UK

Education

2002 - 2004
MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
1989 - 92
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
1986 - 88
HND Film & Video Production, West Sussex College of Art

Exhibitions & Screenings

(C&J) = Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan

2024
Traversing Landscapes, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Forest, Tampere Film Festival, Finland
Arkitekturfilm Oslo, Norway
Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival, Finland
Kalamata International Short Documentary Festival, Greece
History Film Festival, MAMUZ Castle Asparn, Austria
Pigeon Fanciers, Sett Studios, Edinburgh
Directors Lounge, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
Beirut Art Film Festival, Lebanon
England is a Forest, Small Works Gallery, The Mineries, Colchester
History Film Festival, Austria (C&J)
Ischia Film Festival, Italy (C&J)
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada (C&J)
One Minute Vol 12, Close-up Film Centre, London + touring
Poetic Lens International Film Festival, Portland, Oregon, USA
Lane Doc Fest, Jackson, Tennessee, USA (C&J)
Kalamata International Short Docs Film Festival, Greece
The Fringe, Supporting Palestinian Music and Culture, Six Trees, Manchester
Concrete Forms of Resistance, Edda Cinema, Haugesund, Norway
Show of Solidarity for Palestine #4, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023
Natural Interaction, HOME, Manchester (solo exhibition)
Larksong, British Textile Biennial, Goodhsaw Chapel, Rossendale (C&J)
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
This has travelled through the night to you, millimetre 02, Kingsgate Project Space, London
Exits and Entries: Recent Experimental Films, Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, USA (C&J)
Budapest Architecture Film Days, Hungarian Architecture Centre, Budapest, Hungary
Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico
What Lies in Front of Us, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
Radical Frame Film Festival - Short Film Series, Lichtblick Kino, Berlin
The Rich Compost Before, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (C&J)
The West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival, Morgantown, USA (C&J)
Reinvention, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton (C&J)
Genetic Sequences, ESHG, SEC, Glasgow
One Minute, Gallery Wolf & Galentz, Berlin
RIFFA, Regina International Film Festival, Saskatchewan, Canada
Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival, Finland
Slow Film Festival, London
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hallucinogénie, Labocine: The Science New Wave, New York, USA
In Case You Missed It, The Modernist, Manchester
SPARK, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
Embodied Fields: Tracing Memory and Place in Moving Image, Kit Form, Bristol (C&J)

2022
Swalesong, Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes (C&J)
The Open Secret, Culturelab, Newcastle University (C&J)
Nibble Island, Rogue Studios, Manchester
Fungal Behaviour, The Talleyrand, Manchester
Sheffield Doc/Fest (C&J)
Unfolding Origins, North Yorkshire County Archives, Northallerton (C&J)
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Columbia
Slow Down! Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada (C&J)
Swalesong, Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire (C& J)
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Turkey (C&J
Film Seeds: Pollinate!, Moving Images tour, Scotland (C&J
Kendal Mountain Film Festival (C&J)
Silent Running, Analogue Farm, Whitworth
Film Seeds: Pollinate, Moving Images tour, Scottish Borders

2021
London Short Film Festival
Touching Visions, Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds
Tampere Film Festival, Finland
Cinema Urbana, Mostra de Filmes de Arquitetura de Brasília, Brazil
Rare Disease Film Festival, Berlin
Festival International Signes de Nuit, Berlin
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Planet.doc, International Socio-Environmental Film Festival, Brazil
International Nature & Environment Film Festival (FIFNE), Grenoble, France
10th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Edgelands, Manchester Central (C&J)
Salad, The Manchester Contemporary

2020
London Short Film Festival, ICA
Interruptions, Holden Gallery, Manchester
Manchester Open, HOME, Manchester
Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Latvia (C&J)
Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy
Cinetekton International Film and Architecture Festival, Mexico
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
L'Alternativa, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
Correspondance / Correspondence, Vidéographe, Montreal, Canada
ARCHcine International Architecture Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rare Film Festival, Cambridge
Festival International Signes de Nuit, Lisbon, Portugal

2019
London Short Film Festival, ICA
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (C&J)
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway (C&J)
Sources, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
Tabakalera International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastian, Spain
22nd Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France
MEETINGS, Thorsminde, Denmark
Festival of Political Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Echoes of Eco, Sochi International Winter Festival of Arts, Russia
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Invisible Histories, Working Class Movement Library, Salford
Britain Take a Bow, Kurtzfilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival (C&J)
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival/ Best of Lab Competition 2019, HOME, Manchester (C&J)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin (C&J)
Cinambule Court c'est Court Film Festival, Avignon, France
Corto Dorico Film Festival, Ancona, Italy (C&J)

2018
Mental State Signs, Paradise Works, Manchester (solo)
STRATA: Structures, Transformation, Solidarity, Barnsley Museum (solo, C&J)
Special Focus: Nick Jordan, Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick (C&J)
Surveillance Index, Le Bal, Paris
PUSH Festival, HOME, Manchester
Festival internazionale Segni della Notte, Urbino, Italy
The Art of Magic, Horse Hospital, London (and touring)
With Banners Held High, Wakefield (C&J)
CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival, National Cinema Museum, Turin, Italy
Strata, Queens of the Coal Age, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (C&J)
British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin
Mini Indie Film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London
lnternationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Crosscuts Environmental Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
Tracer and Wedge, PS Mirabel, Manchester
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA (C&J)
Artist Film Weekend, HOME, Manchester

2017
Thought Broadcasting, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick (solo)
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Tabakalera International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastian, Spain
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham
Trento Film Festival, Italy
REGARD, Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
EPOS International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
Vienna Poetry Film Festival, Austria
Ecology Without Borders, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Samara, Russia
Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Long Night of the Film Festivals, Berlin
Off the Trail, Purple Mountain Theatre, Goethe-Institute, Nanjing, China
Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Oslo Poesifilm Festival, Oslo, Norway
Mini Indi Film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Denmark
In your dreams I am a landscape, Casa del Cinema, Venice, Italy
Beijing International Short Film Festival
Videoform, Sergey Kuryohin Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg, Russia
Full of Noises, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
Festival International Signes de Nuit, Lisbon, Portugal & Tucuman, Argentina

2016
London Short Film Festival
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Whitstable Biennale 2016 (C&J)
Edinburgh International Film Festival (C&J)
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
Exotic Guests & Alien Invaders, The National Trust, Quary Bank Mill, Styal, UK (C&J)
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Bondi Beach, Sydney
British Short Film Festival, Berlin
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival, Finland
Innsbruck International Biennale, Austria (C&J)
Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria
Portland International Film Festival, USA
Transmission Video Art Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany
Festival Le Court Nous Tient, Paris
Oblíqua / Internacional de Videoarte & Cinema Experimental, Lisbon
19th CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival, Turin, Italy
Thinking Like A Forest, ACUD, Berlin
100 YEARS OF DADA: Film is Dead – Long Live Dada, ICA, London
FIDMarseille, Festival International de Cinéma, Marseille, France (C&J)
Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon (C&J)
Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, UK
Estuary Festival, Thames Estuary, UK (C&J)
Srem Film Festival, Vrdnik, Serbia
Stuff, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, UK
Swedenborg Film Festival, London
Caught by the River, Centrespace, Bristol (C&J)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Munster/Berlin
Now & After, International Video Art Festival, State Darwin Museum, Moscow

2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol (awarded Best Documentary)
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
interfilm International Short Film Festival, Berlin
lnternationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
Voices from the Waters International Film Festival, Bangalore, India
From the Edge of the Atlantic, Lunenburg Doc Fest, Canada
lndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (C&J)
Future Ruins, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick (C&J)
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (C&J)
One Minute Vol.8, Furtherfield Gallery, London; Bloc projects, Sheffield;
Galeria Sztuki, Gdansk; Liverpool Small Cinema;
Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, Estonia;
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen
Film Material Toast, Federation House, Manchester (C&J)
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, New York
Still Howling, The Wonder Inn, Manchester
Cork Film Festival, Ireland
Imagine the City, Pneumatiko Kentro, Kalamata, Greece

2014
London Short Film Festival
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Fulframe Kunst Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
31st International Environmental Film Festival (FIFE), Paris, France
Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria
Art Across the City, LOCWS, Swansea
Les Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
11th Green Film Festival in Seoul, Korea
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
Saison Video Festival, Roubaix, France
CinemAmbiente, Environmental Film Festival, Turin, Italy
In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria
CinemadaMare International Film Festival, Rome, Italy
Festival du Film Court en Plein Air de Grenoble, France
Lago Film Festival, Italy
Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure, Italy
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol
Ponferrada International Film Festival, Spain
Northern Artists Film Programme, Quays Open Day, Salford
ShortVisions international Short Film Festival, Ningbo, China
Ozu Film Festival, Modena, Italy
River's Edge International Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
La Boutique Obscure, Espace Croisé Centre d’art Contemporain, Roubaix, France
One Minute, Furtherfield Gallery, London
Helfa Gelf Art Trail, Ty Coch Nature Reserve, Wales
Kassel Dokfest, Germany (C&J)
Munich Underground Film Festival, Germany
Flyway Film Festival, Pepin, Wisconsin
Aguilar de Campoo Film Festival, Spain
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris (C&J)

2013
From the Mountains to the Sea, Ansel Adams Film Weekend, National Maritime Museum, London (C&J)
London Short Film Festival (C&J)
Spotlights, Whirlygig Cinema, London
Washington DC Independent Film Festival, USA (C&J)
Long Island International Film Festival, New York, USA (C&J)
One Minute, Furtherfield Gallery, London
Festival of Art, Music & Evolution, Motorship Stbnitz, London (C&J)
Heaven, Hell & Other Places, Doug Adams Gallery, PSU, Berkeley, USA (C&J)
LAMPS, Lethbridge Alberta Motion Picture Showcase, Canada
Heartland Alliance for Human Rights, Illinois States Museum, Springfield, USA (C&J)
Ghost Town, Saison Video Festival, Lille, France cat
Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
Neo Art Prize, Neo Gallery 22, Bolton
22. dokumentART: European Festival for Documentaries , Neubrandenberg, Germany
One Minute 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
The Animal Gaze Returned, Sheffield Institute of Arts
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
shnit International Short Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland
XI Festival Internacional de Cine, Ponferrada, Spain
In The Woods Festival, Kent
24th British Film Festival of Dinard, France
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
Matsalu International Nature Film Festival, Lihula, Estonia
Interfilm Berlin, Germany
30th Helsinki Short Film Festival
Swedenborg Short Film Festival, London
Zubroffka International Short Film Festival, Byalistok, Poland

2012
The Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, USA (C&J)
Between Two Rivers, Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, Kentucky (C&J)
Memphis International Film Festival, USA (C&J)
Zaragoza Environmental Film Festival, Spain (C&J)
Long Island International Film Festival, New York, USA (C&J)
Louisville International Film Festival, Kentucky, USA (C&J)
River's Edge International Film Festival 2012, USA (C&J)
St Louis International Film Festival, USA (C&J
Kansas International Film Festival, USA (C&J)
Sheffield Doc/Fest (C&J)
Document.Art International Film Festival, Pitesti City, Romania (C&J)
Reel Islington Film Festival, The Old Fire Station, London
One Minute, Vol 5, FACT, Liverpool; Director's Lounge, Berlin
Offsite, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Tales From Planet Earth, Marquee Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (C&J)
East End Film Festival, EZ Gallery, London (C&J)
Welcome to the Treasuredome, ICCI, Weymouth
Edge of the City Film Festival, Tramshed, London (C&J)
Rencontres Internationales, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
Au Naturel, Whirlygig Cinema, In the Woods Festival, Kent (C&J)
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol (C&J)
American Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Take One Action Film Festival, Glasgow(C&J)

2011
The Animal Gaze, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield (C&J)
The Audbon Trilogy, Illinois Historical Society, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA (C&J)
Heaven, Hell & Other Places, Swedenborg College, Manchester (C&J)
We Are All In This Together, Bureau Gallery, Manchester
Uncovering, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
Mohegan Lake Film Festival, New York, USA (C&J)
Open, Grand Union, Birmingham
The Animal Gaze Returned, School of Fine Art, London Metropolitan University (C&J)
Cyclone, Salle de Cinéma, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (C&J)
One Minute Volume 5, Aid & Abet, Cambridge; The Horse Hospital, London; Peloton Gallery, Sydney
Glimmer, Hull International Short Film Festival
Vertical Cinema, Cardiff
De Anza Experiment Film Exhibition, San Francisco, USA
Rencontres Internationales, Pompidou Centre, Paris
55th BFI London Film Festival (C&J)
Swedenborg International Short Film Festival, London (C&J)
Ciclón, The Audubon Trilogy, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (C&J)

2010
Cairo: The breaking up of the ice, Cornerhouse, Manchester (solo, C&J)
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan Retrospective, Cinephilia, London Short Film Festival (C&J)
The Audubon Trilogy, Cornerhouse cinema, Manchester (C&J)
Night of the Living Docs, London Short Film Festival (C&J)
Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg House, Bloomsbury, London (C&J)
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Gallery, London (C&J)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA (C&J)
Heaven, Hell and Other Places, Swedenborg Hall, London (C&J)
7th London Short Film Festival (C&J)
One Minute (vol 3), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Video Progetto, Grand Union, Birmingham & 26cc, Rome, Italy (C&J)
Cairo Calling, Ace of Cups, Cairo, Illinois, USA (C&J)
The Audubon Trilogy, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, USA (C&J)
Norwegian Wood, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales (C&J)
Analogue is the New Digital, Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester
A Secret Understanding, Balaklava Odyssey 2010, Crimea, Ukraine
55th Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Swedenborg Short Film Festival, London (C&J)

2009
Documenta Madrid, Academia de Cine, Madrid, Spain (C&J)
A Secret Understanding, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
6th London Short Film Festival, ICA, London (C&J)
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
The Golden Record: Sounds of Earth, The Collection, Lincoln; G39, Cardiff (C&J)
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art and Animal/Human Studies, Peninsular Gallery, University of Plymouth (C&J)
Complex Financial Instruments, S1 Salon 09, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (C&J)
Codec/x, APO, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Fear & Optimism, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Short Cuts, Brighton Festival (C&J)
One Minute Vol. 3, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Germany; The Marseille Project Gallery, France
54th Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland (C&J)
Voices From The Water, The 4th International Film Festival on Water, Bangalore, India (C&J)

2008
MoNO - The Museum of Native Oaks, The Manchester Museum (solo, C&J)
West Point and New Madrid, Bird Gallery, Manchester Museum (solo, C&J)
5th London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Videonale 11, INSA Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
Saison Video 2008, Lycée Jean Rostand, Roubaix, France
Director's Lounge, Filmtheater Scala, Berlin (C&J)
PAM, MOV-in Gallery, College of Santa Fe, USA
Let the user speak next, PureScreen 20, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (C&J)
Würstundgritz National Historic Trail, Artstranspennine08, Manchester (C&J)
Documente, Gato Vadio, Oporto, Portugal
Entr' act, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
One Minute (vol 2): Artprojx Gallery, London; The Marseille Project Gallery, France; Red Gallery, Hull
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
Scope Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Souvenirs From Earth, Cologne Art Fair; Diva Art Fair, Paris
Oslo Screen Festival, Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway (C&J)
Darwin's Eye, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris (C&J)
Darwin’s Bicentennial: Art, Science & the Origin of Species, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA (C&J)
3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival, Songzhuang, China (C&J)
A&O, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin (C&J)
Norwegian Wood, Liverpool Biennial, John Lennon Airport, Liverpool
Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art and Animal/Human Studies, Unit 2 Gallery, London Met University (C&J)
Night of the Owl, A Foundation, Liverpool (C&J)
PureScreen #3 DVD, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2007
Rub-a-dub-dub, Projektraum exex, St.Gallen, Switzerland (solo, C&J + Stephen McNeilly)
Beck's Fusions, curated by ICA, touring to London, Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Videonale 11, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Alchemy Artists, The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester (C&J)
North and South, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland (C&J)
Asia-Europe Mediations Biennale, National Museum in Poznan, Poland
Exploring Concrete, La Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville, Lille, France
East-West, Space 72, Vervriers, Belgium
Videoformes International, Musée du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Non-native Field Recordings, Book Works Chapbook launch, Hoxton Hall, London (C&J)
Entr' acte, Athens International Art Fair, Greece
Zemos98_9 International Film Festival, Seville, Spain
Bandits-Mages Festival , Bourges, France
Loop-Pool, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Scanners: The 2007 New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
Art Radio, Cornerhouse, Manchester (C&J)
Capalbio Cinema, Capalbio, Italy
Fact vs Fiction, Olhares Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Lange Nacht der Kultur, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
The 60th Show, Bend in the River, Gainsborough (C&J)

2006
Godwottery, Transition Gallery, London (solo, C&J)
Halloween Short Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London
Directors Lounge, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
Point of View, Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporain (LAAC), Dunkerque, France
What’s About, IUT Lille, Tourcoing, France
Parcours #1, ESAAT, Roubaix, France
Traverser la Ville #1, ESAAT, Roubaix, France
Parcours #2, Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Cambrai, France
Videoformes International, Musée du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Zemos98_8 International Film Festival (Official Section), Seville, Spain
Videonale, Kino Union, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Space, Southwell Artspace, Nottingham (C&J)
Somewhere Else, Overexposed, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Perpetual Art Machine (PAM), Scope Art Fair, New York
Saison Vidéo, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France
PrintROOM, Bureau Gallery, Manchester (C&J)
Figures of Motion, Künstlerhaus, Castle Plüschow, Germany (C&J)
Intro Out, Thessaloniki, Greece
Artists Video Archive, Project Space, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
StoryRooms, DVD launch, Mint Lounge, Manchester
Trailer Park, Guerrilla Zoo, London
Name Festival, Lille, France
Split Film Festival, Croatia
51st Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield
Scope Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
Art Basel, Miami, USA
Festivalmau 06 - Savagery and Animal Life, A.R.C., Faro, Portugal
Static in Motion - Architecture in Film & Video, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

2005
Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Zemos98_7 International Film Festival (official section), Seville, Spain cat
Boundless, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Myymala2, Helsinki, Finland
The Last Picture Show, Grand Cinema, Clitheroe (C&J)
On What There Is, Spectacle, Birmingham
Videolab, Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra, Portugal
Take291, 291 Gallery, London
Zeitgeist International Film Festival, Overcooked Cinema, San Francisco, USA
Transnatura, Botanical Gardens, University of Coimbra, Portugal
PureScreen #01 touring programme:
Kings Arms, Salford
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Itau Cultural, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
AntiMatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada The Residence, London
Radiator Festival, Nottingham
Gang Show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Bring Your Own Video Show, Waygood International Artfayre, Newcastle
Continental Drift, New Brunswick, Canada
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
A Haunting, PureScreen, Manchester Metropolitan University (C&J)
PrintRoom, Hotel Maria, Hoorn, Netherlands
24 Hours, Filmhaus, Nuremberg, Germany
Trailerpark, Cineworld, Cardiff
10th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, Paris, France

2004
The Goose Fair, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (solo, C&J)
Infinite Rorschach, Kuvagalleria, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Do Something, Floating IP, Manchester
Best In Show, The Embassy, Edinburgh
Publish & Be Damned, International 3, Manchester
L'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent, Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), Spain
We Go Round And Round In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire, Liverpool Biennial
Send & Receive, Winnipeg Film Group, Canada
VI Internacional Arte Digital, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Screen, Belgrade Festival, Serbia
BikeBoston Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA
Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Zemos98 International Film Festival (Official Section), Seville, Spain
Commonwealth Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester
WRO, Wroclaw, Poland
24Hr Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
Antimatter, Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Machinista, CCA, Glasgow
Pointless Cinema, The Chateau, Glasgow
Projection Room, Candid Arts Trust, London
Zeitgeist, M.A.G, New Orleans, USA
The Electronic Image, Stoke Film Theatre
Kinokaze, Cinema REX, Belgrade, Serbia
GAGE, Hull Time Based Arts
Dialogues 2004 Festival, Edinburgh
Switch Art Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Machinista, Glasgow & Perm City, Russia
Purescreen 5: The Moon Will Save Our Ass, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2003
Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, The All Year Round Club, Manchester (solo)
This World Can't Stand Long, The Temple, Manchester (solo)
CODEC/X - New British Video & Sound Art, (co-curated by Nick Jordan), touring internationally
We Go Round And Round In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire, Comme Ca Gallery, New York
Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester
WORM, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam
Saturnalia, Edinburgh College of Art
Cinema Vortex, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami
Microcinema International, Main Street, Houston
MiniCine, Curzon Cinema, Soho, London
Birnam Arts Intitute, Dunkeld, Scotland
Twoeightone, Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester
Lux Open - New British Artists' Film & Video, Royal College of Art, London
Yellow Pages, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel, Switzerland
Pavillion, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery
MiniCine, Curzon Soho Cinema, London
Places & Spaces, Tate Liverpool University Network, Chapman Gallery
Eve of Destruction, International 3, Manchester
Museum Nacht, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
LAAA, Galley 825, Los Angeles
Echo Film Festival, Slovenia
Experimental Film Today (conference), University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Eyeball Haemorrhage, Kino at Night & Day, Manchester
PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The Listening Room, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Highwater Everywhere Part 2, St Phillips Church, Mayfest, Salford
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester

2002
Night of the Infra-Terrestrials, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London
Alectro Ecoustic, DADI, Manchester
Blackout, Ashton Court Festival, Bristol
Life Is Good In Manchester, Annual Programme internet project
Die Kunst Golden Jubilee Video Showcase, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Lord Mongo Presents, Tmesis, Manchester
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester
Alectro Ecoustic, Centro, Manchester
Britzcarraldo, Big Hands, Manchester

2001
The Scheme of Things, MART visual arts festival, Manchester (solo)
One More Thing (solo, C&J + David Mackintosh)
- Cable Street Gallery, London
- Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester
Chapel Street Open, Salford
Private View, Velvet, Manchester
Cafe Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery
The Gallery, Liverpool
Apart, with Paul Cordwell, Bury Art Gallery & Museum
Builders Arms Biennial, International 3, Manchester
Sho1, Salford
Bluescreen, IDEA, Manchester
Festival of Briton, Roadhouse, Manchester
Vaudeville, Green Room, Manchester
Lord Mongo, Night & Day, Manchester

Publications and curated projects

Observed Ecologies, screening programme, SPARK Artists Network, Rogue, Manchester
Fungal Behaviour, group exhibition, The Talleyrand, Manchester
Braziers International Film Festival (Festival Curator), 2017 - ongoing
Back Roads To Far Places, short film programme, 2016
Between Two Rivers, DVD, 2013 (C&J)
Heaven, Hell & Other Places, DVD, Swedenborg Society, 2012 (C&J)
The Audubon Trilogy: Delineations of American Scenery & Manners, publication, 2010 (C&J)
MoNO - The Museum of Native Oaks, The Manchester Museum, 2008 (C&J)
Alien Invaders: a guide to non-native species of the Britisher Isles, publication, Book Works, 2006 (C&J)
StoryRooms, DVD catalogue, Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, 2005
The Last Picture Show, exhibition, Grand Cinema, Clitheroe, 2005
Some Mild Peril, publication, 2004
This World Can't Stand Long, audio cd, 2003
Codec/x - New British Video & Sound Art, touring DVD co-curated with Dave Griffiths, 2003
The Scheme Of Things, exhibition, 1999
One More Thing, publication, 1998
Don't Sign Anything, publication, 1997

Filmography

Translocations, 2025
It's All One River, 2024 (co-director Fiona Brehony)
The Mutter, 2024
Net of Atoms, 2024
Burning Waters, 2023
Larksong, 2023 (C&J)
The Entangled Forest, 2023
Pathways Through the Entangled Forest, 2023
Genetic Sequences, 2022
The Open Secret, 2022 (C&J)
Mushroom Hunting in the Woods, 2022
Swalesong, 2022 (C&J)
The Unofficial Countryside, 2021 (C&J)
The Wild Enclosed, 2021 (C&J)
The Language of Hands, 2021
Rare Frequencies, 2021
Natural Hosts, 2020
Welcome to Metropolis, 2020 (C&J)
Wurstundgritzmitbrutti, 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance, 2019
Kobbwebjar, 2018
Stratum, 2018 (C&J)
STRATA, 2018 (C&J)
Intentional Community: The Art of Living & The Science of Life, 2017 (co-director Clara Casian)
Thought Broadcasting, 2017
MERZMONGO, 2016
Last Acre, 2016 (C&J)
The Atom Station, 2015
The Emotions of Others, 2015 (C&J)
Off the Trail, 2015 (C&J)
Headlands Lookout, 2014 (C&J)
The Rising, 2014
Nature House Inc., 2013
Between Two Rivers, 2012 (C&J)
American Water, 2011 (C&J)
Monument to Swedenborg, 2010 (C&J)
Heaven, Hell and Other Places, 2010 (C&J)
Confluence, 2010 (C&J)
How the air feels to the birds, 2009
The Reapers, 2009 (C&J)
Cairo, 2009 (C&J)
West Point, 2008 (C&J)
New Madrid, 2008 (C&J)
How The Cutter Works, 2008
Eight Themes for the Golden Record, 2008 (C&J)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), 2007
Descriptions & Sketches of Some Remarkable Oaks, 2007 (C&J)
Let the user speak next, 2006
Prequel, 2006
William Carlos Williams, 2005
Edgar, 2005 (C&J)
Havanazephyr, 2005
Grubber, 2004 (C&J)
12 Dogs, 2004
Notes on the Cinematograph, 2004
Highwater Everywhere Part 2, 2003
Fury, 2003
Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, 2003
Another Road Movie, 2003
A Road Movie, 2003
Electro Intervention, 2002
Transistor Man, 2002
Roused By My Epilepsy, 2001
Turner, 1996
The Wild Fruits,1987

Awards, Residencies, Artist Commissions

British Textiles Biennial/English Heritage, Goodshaw Chapel commission, 'Larksong' (C&J)
Best Documentary, 'Swalesong', West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival, Morgantown, USA (C&J)
Best Documentary, 'Concrete Forms of Resistance', Arquiteturas Film Festival 2022, Porto, Portugal
'The Open Secret' film commission, Newcastle University / Stasi Archives, Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2022 (C&J)
Manchester Independents commission, 2021 (C&J)
'Rare Frequencies' film commission, Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Audience Award: Best International Film, 'Concrete Forms of Resistance', São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
'Touching Visions' film commission, Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
‘Unfolding Origins’ artist residency, North Yorkshire County Record Office, 2020 (C&J)
Best Film, 'Stratum', Crosscuts Environmental Humanities Film Festival Stockholm, 2018
Grants for the Arts award, Arts Council England, 2017
Arts & Heritage, Meeting Point 2 (C&J)
Exotic Guests & Alien Invaders, The National Trust, Quary Bank Mill, Styal (C&J)
Best Film, 'Off the Trail', ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival,Munster/Berlin,2016 (C&J)
Grants for the Arts award, Arts Council England, 2016
British Council, Short Film Festival Travel Grant, 2016
Grants for the Arts award, Arts Council England, 2016 (C&J)
Best Documentary, 'The Atom Station', Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol, 2015
Art Gene residency & commission, ‘Seldom Seen’, Barrow-in-Furness, 2015 (C&J)
Best Film,'Nature House Inc.', Northern Artists Film programme, Quays Culture, 2014
Art Across the City, public art commission, LOCWS, Swansea, 2014
British Council, Short Film Festival Travel Grant, 2014
Best Film, 'Nature House Inc.', Swedenborg Short Film Festival, London
Artists Residency & Commission, Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, 2013 (C&J)
Best Film, 'Between Two Rivers', River's Edge International Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky, USA, 2012 (C&J)
Best Environmental Film, 'Between Two Rivers', Document.Art Film Festival, Romania, 2012 (C&J)
Best Film, Audience Choice Award, 'Between Two Rivers', Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, USA, 2012 (C&J)
Special Commendation, Best of Manchester Awards, Urbis, 2009 (C&J)
Cannes Short Film Corner selection: 'The Reapers', Northwest Vision and Media, 2009 (C&J)
Wallflower Press Best Experimental Film: ‘New Madrid’, London Short Film Festival, ICA, 2009 (C&J)
FourDocs Bursary: 'The Reapers', Channel 4, 2008 (C&J)
Alchemy Fellowship, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2007/08 (C&J)
Visual Arts New Commissions award, Arts Council England, 2006 (C&J)
Golden Shears Demonstration, Best In Show, The Embassy, Edinburgh (C&J)
Best Film, 'Fury', London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, 2004
Grand Jury Prize - Best Film: 'Fury', Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2003

Festival Juries and Visiting Artist Lectures:

Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
lnternationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris
Braziers International Film Festival, UK
Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St Petersburg
Midnordic Film Pitch, Norway
BA Filmmaking, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
BA Art & Design, University of Leeds
MA Documentary Filmmaking, Aberystwyth University
BA Film, Edge Hill University
BA Fine Art, Bolton University

Recent reviews & articles

Larksong, British Textile Biennial, review, Northern Soul, Nov 2023
Larksong, British Textile Biennial, review, Corridor 8, Oct 2023
Natural Interaction review, Corridor8, April 2023
Natural Interaction preview, Creative Tourist, Feb 2023
Concrete Forms of Resistance, True Sories: Spaces review, The Guardian, Aug 2021
Natural Hosts review, Curta Kinoforum, Aug 2021
Concrete Forms of Resistance review, Political Critique, July 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance, Doc Weekly Top 10, July 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance, Kinoforum Review, Aug 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance, Exposed Magazine, Aug 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance, Senses of Cinema, Aug 2020
Mental State Signs review, This Is Tomorrow, June 2018
Mental State Signs review, Corridor8, June 2018
The Atom Station review, Sight & Sound, Oct 2015
Interview, Aesthetica, Sept 2014
The Rising review, Cineuropa, July 2014
Between Two Rivers review, We Are Movie Geeks, Nov 2012
Between Two Rivers review, Reel Time, May 2012
Between Two Rivers, Southeast Missorian, Feb 2012
Between Two Rivers, Southern Illinoisan , Feb 2012
Between Two Rivers, news feature, WSIL-TV, Feb 2012
Between Two Rivers review, Sound on Sight, June 2012
Between Two Rivers review, Blueprint, Jan 2012
Between Two Rivers review, Pulp, Dec 2011
The Audubon Trilogy: Fugitive Narratives and the Drama of the Natural World, Carbondale Nightlife, July 2010
Documentary feature, The Cairo Citizen, Illinois, USA, July 2010
Alien Invaders, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, March 21st, 2009
Alchemy, preview, Artists Newsletter, April, 2008
Flux Space, Flux Magazine, March 2008
MoNO, Metro News, Feb 12th, 2008
MoNO, South Manchester Reporter, Feb 12th, 2008
MoNO, preview, BBC Manchester, Jan 22nd, 2008
Beck's Fusions, preview & interview, The Times, Sept 1st, 2007
Beck's Fusions, preview, The Guide, The Guardian, Sept 1st, 2007
North & South, review, Art Monthly, Sept 2007
Rub-a-dub-dub, review, St Galler Taggblatt, May 24th, 2007
Alchemy Fellowship, article, Artists Newlsetter, March 2007
Alchemy Fellowship, feature, Metro News, Feb 20th, 2007
Alien Invaders, review, New Statesman, December 18th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, Lab Times, Issue 2, Dec 2006
Alien Invaders, review, Garageland, Issue 3 - Nature, October 2006
Alien Invaders, feature, South Manchester Reporter, Sept 29th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, The Guardian, September 9th 2006
Alien Invaders, review, The Saatchi Gallery, editorial, Sept 9th, 2006
Alien Invaders, review, New Scientist, August 26th 2006
Alien Invaders, book launch, Metro News, July 6th 2006
Alien Invaders, news, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 81, June 2006
würstundgritz feature & interview, Garageland, Issue 1, Jan 2006
würstundgritz feature, The Mix Manchester, Issue 1, February 2006
Here Be Dragons, Zoo Art Fair 2005 Review, Critical Friend, Issue 3, 2005
On What There Is, review, Artists Newsletter, September 2005
On What There Is, review, Arty, August 2005
Videonale 10, review, Kunstforum, June 2005
Liverpool Biennial, review, Art Monthly, November 2004
The Goose Fair, preview, The Guide, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, pick of the week, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, City Life, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, The Guardian, April 2004
The Goose Fair, review, Metro, April 2004
Some Mild Peril, review, City Life, July 2004
Some Mild Peril, review, Flux, March 2004
ICA Halloween Short Film Festival, review, Time Out, January 2004
Lord Mongo - Roused By My Epilepsy, review & DVD, Product, Winter 2003
We Go Round & Round In The Night…, preview, Flux, December 2003
Aperto Manchester, Flash Art, October 2003