Gordon Senior
Biography
BORN Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK.
RESIDES Turlock, California, USA and Hindringham, Norfolk, UK.
STUDIO Turlock, California, USA and Hindringham, Norfolk, UK.
Education
1963-1964 Goldsmiths College, London University: ATC
1962-1963 Leeds College of Art: Postgraduate Diploma.
1960-1962 Leeds College of Art: National Diploma in Art and Design.
1958-1960 Wakefield College of Art: Intermediate Diploma in Art and Design.
Teaching
2002-Present California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA, USA-Chair of Art Department
1997-2002 Norwich School of Art and Design, UK-Course Leader MA
1990-2002 Norwich School of Art and Design, UK-Course Leader BA (Honors Fine Art)
1998-1990 Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, UK-Head of Art
1986-1990 Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, UK-Head of Painting
1984-1986 Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, UK-Second year Painting Tutor
1966-1984 Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, UK-Head of Printmaking
1964-1966 Clarendon College of Further Education, Nottingham, UK-Fine Art Lecturer
Visiting Artist
Humboldt State University, CA
Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK.
Wakefield College of Art, Wakefield, UK.
Sheffield Polytechnic, Sheffield, UK.
The Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands.
Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland, UK.
Crewe and Alsager Faculty Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University, Scotland, UK.
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
University of Ulster at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Independent Exhibitions
2008 Hand tools of Unknown Use and Other Works, First Street Gallery, Eurieka, Humboldt State University, CA.
2007 Touching Earth, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific College, Angwin, CA.
Standing on Earth, Truckee Meadows Community College, Main Gallery, Reno, Nevada.
2006 Groundwork, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, California.
2005 About this Earth, University Art Gallery, California State University,Stanislaus, California, USA
2005 Gordon Senior, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, California, USA
1999 Kelling Arts Festval, Kelling, UK
1996 Grizedale Centre. Grizedale Forrest, UK
1995 Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
Hardware Gallery, London, UK
1989 City Art Gallery, Dundee, Scotland.
Loftus Festival, Loftus, County Cleveland, UK
1988 Grays Art Gallery, Hartlepool, UK
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington, UK
Alsager Gallery, Alsager, UK
1985 Dovecot Gallery, Stockton, UK
Cleveland College Gallery,Middlesbrough, UK.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Northern Centre of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
1981 LYC.Gallery, Brampton, Cumbria, UK
1967 Midland Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1964 Clarendon Gallery, Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK
1963 Clarendon Gallery, Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK
Group Exhibitions
2008 Summer Exhibition, Jill Bishop Contemporary Art, Halesworth, UK.
Salthouse Sculpture Trail, Salthouse, Norfolk, UK.
Casters, University Art Gallery, California State University Stanislaus, CA.
Inside/out Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Califonia.
2007 Department of Art @ John Stewart Rogers Faculty Development Center, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA. (5 person)
2006 Eight Hours Difference, The Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, UK
2005 Just Visiting Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California.
2004 Valley View, University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, USA.
Objects in Contemporary Practice, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, California, USA.
2001 Down to Earth, Salthouse Church, Norfolk, UK.
The Hare, Gysing Arts Centre, Suffolk, UK.
International Festival of Light, Westonbirt Arboretum, Curated by Lyn Cluer Coleman, Westonbirt, Gloustershire, UK.
2000 Drawing Connections, Beach Gallery, Kansas, USA.
Strands, I Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Strands, Gettysburg College Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA.
Drawing Connections, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
1998 Penrith Regional Art Gallery and Lewers Bequest, NSW, Austrailia.
Inversions, Stroud House Gallery, Gloustershire, UK.
View Points, ArtsWay Gallery, Hampshire, UK.
Tree of Life, The Centre for Life Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.
Vauxhall Gardens, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK.
Sticks, ArtSway Gallery, a Southern Arts touring exhibition, Hampshire,UK.
1997 Picture This, Norwich, UK.
Newcastle Regional Gallery,NSW, Austrailia.
1996 Weather View, Norwich-Den Haag” Koninkijke Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands.
The Hare, Leicester City Art Gallery, Leicester, UK.
Conversations, Contact Gallery, Norwich, UK.
1995 Tyne and Tide, Design Works Foundation, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, UK.
The Taster Exhibition, The Contact Gallery, Advice Arcade and St. Margaret's Church Norwich, UK.
Norfolk and Suffolk Open Studios, UK.
The Castle Art Show 94, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK.
1994 The Castle Art Show 95, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK.
Leeds International Symposium Exhibition, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
1993 Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Smiths Gallery, London, UK.
Drawings of Distinction, Metropolitan Wharf, Wapping, London, UK. Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia.
Newcastle Group 93, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle,UK
The Castle Art Show 93, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich UK.
1992 From Tyne to Tay, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland North-East to Finland and Russia, Central house of the Artists, Moscow, Russia.
National Symposium Exhibition, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
Tampereen Taidemuseum, Tampere, Finland.
1991 East, National Open Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK.
Ten Days, Pyramid Arts Centre, London, UK.
1990 Design Works Foundation, Gateshead. Tyne & Wear, UK.
Selected Art works from the North, Gallery North, Kirby Longsdale, Cumbria,
Northern Lights, D.L.I. Museum and Art Centre, Durham, UK, and Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway.
1989 Art London 89, Olympia, London, UK.
Small Works Exhibition, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, UK.
1988 The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Oosterpoot, Groningen, Netherlands.
Nine from Newcastle, Fachhockschole Heilbronn, Germany.
Three Artists from the North of England,
Sculpture Court, R.I.B.A. London,UK.
Eight By Eight, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1987 Nine from Newcastle, Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
London Group Exhibition, Royal College of Art London,UK.
Art Auction, Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London, UK.
Northern Prints 1987, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK.
The Newcastle Group, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Small Works Show, Newcastle Polytechnic, UK.
Nine from Newcastle, York University Gallery, Toronto,Canada.
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington, UK.
1986 Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton, UK.
A Painterly Approach, The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
Landscape, Three Painters,Curwen Gallery, London, UK.
Nine from Newcastle, Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art Chicago, USA
J. D. Gallery, Corbridge, Northumberland, UK.
Small works, Durham University, Durham, UK.
3rd International Contemporary Art Fair, London UK.
Small Works Exhibition, Curwen Gallery London, UK.
1985 The Tolly Cobbold 5th National Open Exhibition,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,and tour, UK.
Newcastle Group Inaugural Show, Sunderland Museum,UK.
1983 Prints, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, UK
Tyne Tees Northern Open, Sunderland Arts Centre and tour, UK.
1982 ....and Printmaking, Waterloo Gallery, London, UK.
The Northern Open, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Engelsk Grafikk, Gallery F15. Moss, Norway.
1980 Waterloo Gallery, London, UK.
1979 PMC. Welsh Touring Exhibition, University of Wales and tour, UK.
Printmaking, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery and tour, UK.
1978 Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
1977 World Print Competition, San Francisco, USA.
1974 Caloustie Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
1973 Pernod Print Exhibition, Middlesbrough, UK.
1971 PMC, Morley Gallery, London, U K.
1970 Northern Printmakers Awards ‘70’, Billingham Art Gallery, UK.
North West Print Biennale, Seattle, Washington, USA.
1969 British International Print Biennale,Bradford, UK
1V Mostra Internazionale D’Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo, Italy
1968 V1Internationale Ausstellung Graphik, Europa-Haus, Vienna, Austria.
Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Mostra Internazionale Di Grafica, Catania Accademie Di Belle Atri, Sicily, Italy.
PMC, Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London, UK.
1967 Newcastle Group Exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Newcastle Group, Arts Council Exhibition UK tour: Liverpool-Bluecoat Gallery, London-Hornsey Library, Stafford College of Art,
Birmingham-the New institute Gallery, Portsmouth College of Art, Harrogate Art Gallery, UK.
AAA.Gallery, New York, USA.
Galleria La Bertesia, Genoa, Italy
Newcastle Group Exhibition, Keele University, UK
1966 Northern Painters, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Midland Open Exhibition, Midland Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1965 Group 13, Congress House, London, UK
1964 25 West Riding Artists, Wakefield City Art Gallery, UK
Spring Exhibition, Midland Group Gallery.Nottingham, UK
1963 Yorkshire Artists, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Modern Art in Yorkshire, Wakefield City Art Gallery, UK
AIA, Gallery, London, UK
1962 Leeds Artists, Dortmund, Germany.
1961 National Young Artists, FBA. Galleries, London UK
Selected Collections
The Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA.
The Darlington Collection, Co Durham, UK,
Northumbria University, Newcaslte-Upon-Tyne, UK.
Wakefield City Art Gallery, Wakefield, UK.
Leeds Schools Loan Scheme, Leeds, UK.
The Fred Olsen Line, Newcastle, UK.
King Edwards Hospital, UK
Grizedale Centre, Grizedale, UK.
Crossing Open Ground by Gordon Senior, 1995, ISBN 1-872482-155
(Various libraries, etc. including the Tate Gallery artist book collection).
Catalogues and Brochures
2008 Gordon Senior : Tools of Unknown Use, ISBN: 0-9802410-0-6
2007 Department of Art @ John Stewart Rogers Faculty Development Center, ISBN: 0-9773967-9-7
2006 Groundwork, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, California, ISBN 0-9773967-1-1
2005 About this Earth, University Art Gallery, Stanislaus State University, ISBN 0- 9676803-7-9
2002 Drawing Connections, Kansas State University & NASD 2002.
1999 States org, Winchester: Southern Arts
1998 Viewpoints, Hampshire: ArtsWay Gallery
1998 Sticks, ISBN 1 873451 342 Southern Arts
1995 Birdsuit 4, writings and drawings from Norwich School of Art
1995 Crossing Open Ground, ISBN 1 872482 155.Norwich School of Art
1994 Birdsuit 3, writings and drawings from Norwich School of Art and Design
Artists from Europe, Leeds European Fine Art Symposium
Bibliography
2007 Review by David Olivant in art critical.com of of Standing on Earth at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada.
Review by David Olivant in Reviews Unlimited, Artists Newsletter, UK, of Standing on Earth at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada.
2001 Video interview The Hare, 2001, Directed by Mike Toll, Gysing Arts, Sufolk, UK.
Video Down to Earth, 2001, Directed by Mike Toll, Salthouse Church, North Norfolk, UK.
2000 Drawing Connections, Kansas State University
1995 Crossing Open Ground, Gordon Senior, Cathy Coutney,Art Monthly 9.95
Gordon Senior - Crossing Open Ground, Helen Pye-Smith, ARLIS, issue 113 March\April.
1993 Latvia National T.V. Art World, Jan 31st.
Diena Pielikums, Balozu pari un citi pari, Riga, Latvia,Jan 30th.
Piektcliena, Nukaslas Grupas, Riga, Latvia, Jan 29th.
B.B.C. World Service, Lounaslahetys, Finland, 21st Jan.
1992 Lansi- Guomi, The Newcastle Group, Finland, 8th Nov.
Radio Tampere, Finland, Lauantaitarootin, Nov 7th.
Radio Moreeni, Tampere, Minna Vesanto, Finland, Nov 7th.
Russian National T.V News and Moscow Radio, July 15th. The Newcastle Group at the Central House of the Artists.
Aamulehti, Tampere, Finland, Nov 7th.
1991 Gordon Senior One Ear of Barley, AND Journal of Art, No. 26.s
1990 The Northern Lights, The Newcastle Group in Norway’ by Brian Ord.
Commissions, Research Awards and Residencies.
2008 Commisioned Sculpture of Eyemann Sculpture Garden, Idyllwild Arts, CA
2007 Research award CSU Stanislaus.
Commision for NESsT.
2006 Commisioned Drawing for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Modesto, CA
Commision for NESsT
Research award for collaborative international conference “Inspiration to Order”.
2005 Commision for NESsT.
2004 Research award CSU Stanislaus.
2000 Research award to development of exhibition Artor Stoll/Gordon Senior
1998 “Sticks” Commissioned for Southern Arts Touring Exhibition.
1996 The Grizedale Forest Residency.
1995 Eastern Arts Publishing Award.
NSAD research award, publication ‘Crossing Open Ground’.
John Brinkley Sabbatical.
Research award NSAD publication of book ‘Crossing Open Ground’.
1994 Invited Artist Leeds Metropolitan University International Symposium.
1992 Invited Artist Leeds Metropolitan University National Symposium.
1987 Sabbatical Term, Newcastle Polytecnic