Bibliography
2021
nca21, Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, Norwich Cathedral.
2021
Somewhere Unexpected, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK.
2021
Nowhere, Cley 21, 20th anniversary exhibition curated by Amanda Geitner. Published by The North Norfolk Exhibition Project.
2019
On the Edge: from Transgression to Frontier, Groundworks Gallery, King's Lynn.
2019
Cley 19, Contemporary Art, Cley North Norfolk, UK.
2018
The Greater The Distance The Clearer The View, Cley 18 by Caroline Fisher and Mary Crofts. Published by The North Norfolk Exhibition Project.
2019
Land and Sea, Gordon Senior & Jayne Ivimey, The Cut, Halesworth, UK.
2018
Our eARTh Exhibition 2018, Kunsthuis, Crayke, UK.
2019
Waveney Sculpture Trail.
2018
Waveney Sculpture Trail.
2017
Silent Harvest, Catalogue, text by Prof David Olivant and Prof John Sumser.
2017
Waveney Sculpture Trail.
2017
British Invasion, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, LA County.
2017
Gordon Senior & Eleanor Wood Silent Journeys: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1812 Gallery, Fresno, CA.
2016
Hares, Birds and Butterflies, Gemperle Gallery, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
2016
Gordon Senior and Eleanor Wood, Crossing Borders, Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1821 Gallery, Fresno, CA.
2016
Cartier-Bresson, Senior, Trump (Gaps) Zeteo, By J R Sumser.
2014
Inspired by Birds, Norwich Castle, Norwich, UK.
2013
Paper Trail, Jay Jay Gallery Sacramento, California.
2013
Origins, Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA.
2012
In Praise of Collecting, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA. ISBN 978-0-9857652-0-0.
2010
Salthouse 10 Landmark 2010, by Margie Britz and Andrew Schumann, Published by the North Norfolk Exhibition Project.
2009
Energy Was in the Air the Newcastle Group 1984-2009.
2009
Butterfly World, Independent exhibition, MJC Gallery, Modesto, CA.
2008
Gordon Senior : Tools of Unknown Use, Independent exhibition, Humboldt State University, 422 First Street, Eureka, CA. ISBN: 0-9802410-0-6.
2007
Department of Art @ John Stewart Rogers Center, ISBN: 0-9773967-9-7.
2007
Review by David Olivant in art critical.com of Standing on Earth, Reno, Nevada.
2007
Touching Earth, Independent Exhibition, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific College, Angwin, CA.
2007
Groundwork, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, ISBN 0-9773967-1-1.
2005
About This Earth, University Art Gallery, Independent Exhibitions, Stanislaus State University, and Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, California.
2005
Just Visiting, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California.
2002
Drawing Connections, Kansas State University & NASD 2002.
2001
down to earth, Salthouse Church, North Norfolk Coast.
1995
Crossing Open Ground, Norwich Gallery Norwich School of Art and Design, Text Helen Boorman Design Ray Gregory. Curator Lynda Morris.
1995
Crossing Open Ground, Independent Exhibition, Hardware Gallery, 162 Archway Road, London
1991
East National Open National Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, Norwich. Selected by Andrew Brighton and Sandy Moffat.
1991
North- East to Finland and Russia, Central house of the Artists, Moscow and Tampereen Taidemuseum, Tampere, Finland.
1990
The Northern Lights, Twenty-four Artists from the North East of England, edited by Brian Ord and Tony Knipe.
1987
The Inner Landscape, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington, UK.
1987
A Painterly Approach, Independent Exhibition, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK. Introductory essay by Anna Pepperall.
1985
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Fifth National Exhibition. Introductory essay by Professor Norbert Lynton.
Artist Statement
The Sculptures embrace the way Senior researches the world of different plants and creatures that live upon the land. The sculptures are often made of different spherical forms created by using a range of materials and processes and displayed so they may be walked around and surfaces that seem to encourage people to embrace them.
Some rounded forms are cut away to reveal what is inside of them, cast elements, often in bronze depicting ploughed land, arable plants and animals associated with rotational farm systems. Other forms seem to communicate movement and flight by their shapes with inserts reaching out offering depiction of monthly sky carts experienced during recent periods of the pandemic.
Pieces may be seen individually or as part of a linked group, a family or a series, whereby an exhibited installation might comprise of several different but inter-related works grouped together in conversation.
Bibliography
2021
nca21, Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, Norwich Cathedral.
2021
Somewhere Unexpected, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK. (gallery guide)
2021
Nowhere, Cley 21, 20th anniversary exhibition curated by Amanda Geitner. Published by The North Norfolk Exhibition Project. (catalogue)
2019
On the Edge: from Transgression to Frontier, Groundworks Gallery, King's Lynn.
2019
Cley 19, Contemporary Art, Cley North Norfolk, UK. (catalogue)
2018
The Greater The Distance The Clearer The View, Cley 18 by Caroline Fisher and Mary Crofts. Published by The North Norfolk Exhibition Project.
2019
Land and Sea, Gordon Senior & Jayne Ivimey, The Cut, Halesworth, UK.
2018
Our eARTh Exhibition 2018, Kunsthuis, Crayke, UK.
2019
Waveney Sculpture Trail. (catalogue)
2018
Waveney Sculpture Trail. (catalogue)
2017
Silent Harvest, Catalogue, text by Prof David Olivant and Prof John Sumser.
2017
Waveney Sculpture Trail. (catalogue)
2017
British Invasion, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, LA County, (catalogue).
2017
Gordon Senior & Eleanor Wood Silent Journeys: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1812 Gallery, Fresno, CA.
2016
Hares, Birds and Butterflies, Gemperle Gallery, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
2016
Gordon Senior and Eleanor Wood, Crossing Borders, Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1821 Gallery, Fresno, CA.
2016
Cartier-Bresson, Senior, Trump (Gaps) Zeteo, By J R Sumser.
2014
Inspired by Birds, Norwich Castle, Norwich, UK.
2013
Paper Trail, Jay Jay Gallery Sacramento, California.
2013
Origins, Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA.
2012
In Praise of Collecting, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA. ISBN 978-0-9857652-0-0. (catalogue)
2010
Salthouse 10 Landmark 2010, by Margie Britz and Andrew Schumann, Published by the North Norfolk Exhibition Project.
2009
Energy Was in the Air the Newcastle Group 1984-2009. (catalogue)
2009
Butterfly World, Independent exhibition, MJC Gallery, Modesto, CA.
2008
Gordon Senior : Tools of Unknown Use, Independent exhibition, Humboldt State University, 422 First Street, Eureka, CA. ISBN: 0-9802410-0-6.
2007
Department of Art @ John Stewart Rogers Center, ISBN: 0-9773967-9-7.
2007
Review by David Olivant in art critical.com of Standing on Earth, Reno, Nevada.
2007
Touching Earth, Independent Exhibition, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific College, Angwin, CA.
2007
Groundwork, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, ISBN 0-9773967-1-1.
2005
About This Earth, University Art Gallery, Independent Exhibitions, Stanislaus State University, and Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, California.
2005
Just Visiting, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California.
2002
Drawing Connections, Kansas State University & NASD 2002. (catalogue)
2001
down to earth, Salthouse Church, North Norfolk Coast.
1995
Crossing Open Ground, Norwich Gallery Norwich School of Art and Design, Text Helen Boorman Design Ray Gregory. Curator Lynda Morris.
1995
Crossing Open Ground, Independent Exhibition, Hardware Gallery, 162 Archway Road, London
1991
East National Open National Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, Norwich. Selected by Andrew Brighton and Sandy Moffat. (catalogue)
1991
North- East to Finland and Russia, Central house of the Artists, Moscow and Tampereen Taidemuseum, Tampere, Finland.
1990
The Northern Lights, Twenty-four Artists from the North East of England, edited by Brian Ord and Tony Knipe.
1987
The Inner Landscape, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington, UK.
1987
A Painterly Approach, Independent Exhibition, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK. Introductory essay by Anna Pepperall.
1985
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Fifth National Exhibition. Introductory essay by Professor Norbert Lynton.