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‘A Celebration of the Life and Work of
Gordon House’
Above a high angled view of Gordon's studio.
"…The higher excellence is of the eye, not craft mastery: the imagination is satisfied if just within sight is the thing it knows."
Archibald Knox
It was perhaps one of Gordon House’s greatest strengths, of which there were many, that not only did he possess a remarkably creative and highly original eye but that he was also a master of all his principle crafts.
Although it is still with a heavy heart that we at the Millinery Works Gallery mourn Gordon, it is a great pleasure for us that the first exhibition of his work since his tragic loss is held here.
Our relationship with him was in many ways not unique, because the generous support, seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of art and art history, advice, designs, guidance and warm friendship he offered unhesitatingly to us from the start, I am sure he offered to all those he worked with and with whom he had an affinity.
Maybe we had a special relationship with him because at the Millinery Works we merge and intertwine a large number (certainly not all of them) of his myriad interests and passions. However, even here this maybe self-delusion – in essence it was Gordon himself, his enthusiastic involvement and love of art and life that created something special. He inspired you to believe in yourself and your abilities.
In a world where hyperbole, self-publicity and self-aggrandisement often hold sway, Gordon’s outstanding body of work has often been overlooked or downplayed.
We hope that this exhibition, including a selection of his phenomenally creative graphic design work for the Beatles, Live Aid and the ‘design classics’ for Giusippe Eskenazi, his groundbreaking printing oeuvre, several important early abstract canvases and his later, intense Welsh background inspired oils, will act as a spur for others to mount a far larger and more comprehensive retrospective.
In his recent profound book on life, death and loss Here Is Where We Met, John Berger writes of a number of deeply moving and life affirming ‘encounters’ with his mother in Lisbon, eleven years after her death! Many of us who knew Gordon House will surely come across him again. His significance to us and to art is too meaningful for it to be otherwise.
Jeff Jackson
For the Millinery Works Gallery
The Millinery Works Gallery
Saturday 9 July 2005 - From 12.30 to 5pm
The exhibition continues until Saturday 20 August 2005
Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm Sunday 12 to 5pm.