Kristy Gordon
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Kristy Gordon is an artist and practice-based researcher in the field of expanded drawing practice, whose work encompasses digital and analogue drawings, carved assemblages and site-specific immersive installations.
Kristy has received artistic grants from Central Coast Council (2020) and Randwick City Council (2021). She has assisted in setting up night public art exhibitions: Randwick NOX (2021) and Broken Hill Desert Equinox (2022), where she also exhibited site-specific slow art installations powered by solar energy. She has been a finalist in the Gosford Art Prize (2019), Hidden Rookwood (2022), the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2022, 2023), Collabora8Women Art Prize (2023) and in 2022 she won the prestigious public art prize Eden Unearthed. Kristy鈥檚 work is held in private collections and public institutions, including a permanent installation in the main entrance hall at St Vincent鈥檚 Hospital, Darlinghurst.
In her academic capacity, Kristy is committed to developing a community of research practitioners. In 2022 she co-founded the student-led initiative HDR Studio Crits, an ongoing inter-institutional dialogue that brings together artist-research candidates and research alumni from UNSW, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) and National Art School (NAS) to discuss and further their research practices.
Prior academic achievements
- Bachelor of Art: Communication Studies (photography, PR), University of Newcastle (1999)
- Dean鈥檚 List, UNSW Art & Design (2019)
- Master of Art (drawing, painting), awarded with Excellence, UNSW Art & Design (2021)
- PhD Programme Certificate (The Aesthetic Experience and the Aesthetics of Slowness), University of Aalborg (2023)
- Research area
- Research outputs
Kristy Gordon鈥檚 PhD research investigates slow art as a consciously embedded creative process, using a practice-based methodology in expanded drawing. In this project, embodied gestural drawing and cumulative repetitive mark-making processes, specifically with contemporary materials such as iPad, iPencil and power tools, reveal how ways of drawing with 鈥榝ast鈥 materialities can produce new forms of slow affect. It contributes knowledge of the practitioner鈥檚 intention, process and material approach to slowness as a way of working with the velocity of contemporary life.
This work is situated within the developing genre of slow art, which the research traces through theory and in the Australian and international exhibition contexts. Where the dominant paradigm of slow art is currently audience experience of an artwork, this new research foregrounds the affective encounters between artist and artwork during the creative process, identifying the points of intersection between slow ethics and slow aesthetic experiences generated by creative ideation, process, production and exhibition.
Towards this research, in 2023 Kristy participated in an international doctoral program with Denmark鈥檚 University of Aalborg, progressing scholarly enquiry into aesthetic experiences and the aesthetics of slowness, which is driving practice-based innovation and new scholarly enquiry in her field.
The outcomes of Kristy鈥檚 research are digital drawings printed on various substrates and projected, as well as dimensional drawings carved with handheld power tools, and immersive installations in galleries and public spaces.
- 鈥榁elocity and Slowness鈥. Paper Presentation, Drawing Research Network (DRN) Drawing in Relation: Sound and Motion (online), Drawing Research Network, April 2023.
Non-traditional research outputs
- 鈥楧eepwater鈥. Sculpture in Group Exhibition Collabor8Women Art Prize (Finalist), Ellipsis Gallery Sydney, November 2023
- 鈥楧eepwater鈥. Sculpture in Group Exhibition Blue Surpasses Dimension, Saywell Gallery Sydney, August 2023
- 鈥楧eepwater鈥. Sculpture in Group Exhibition Materiality, DrawSpace Sydney, August 2023
- 鈥楧eepwater鈥 and 鈥榃ave Motion II鈥. Expanded drawing installation in Group Exhibition Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (Finalist), AD Space Sydney, October 2023
- 鈥楽hallows鈥. Expanded drawing installation in Group Exhibition HDR Art Lab, AD Space Sydney, July 2023
- 鈥淩ockpool/ A Pensive鈥. Digital drawing in DRN Drawing In Relation online exhibition, Loughborough University, 2023
- 鈥楥loudspace鈥. Immersive installation in Group Exhibition Eden Unearthed Art Prize (First Prize), Eden Gardens Sydney, November 2022
- 鈥楥atching Fallen Stars II鈥. Sculpture in Group Exhibition Desert Equinox, Broken Hill, September 2022
- 鈥楥atching Fallen Stars鈥. Sculpture in Group Exhibition Hidden Rookwood (Finalist), Sydney, September 2022