110:"A Transposed Landscape" – 1990 Oil on canvas. 180 x 225 cm (After Alvarez Bravo: Striking Worker, assassinated, 1934—Photograph) Collection: Ifa Lethu Foundation | “System” 1989 Oil on canvas 180 x 225 cm IFA LETHU Foundation Collection | Amandla ('Power')– The Punch and Jury Show 1989, Mixed Media, 21.6 x 35.3cm, Collection: The South African National Gallery | Memorate.com.au – Anzac Installation, 2015 Orange Regional Gallery | Mike Parr at the MCA 2006, Oil on canvas 225 x 180 cm Sulman Prize 2007 — Finalist
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191:(1968–1970). He was arrested at age fifteen when he attacked a white Policeman for setting his dog on a black man in Hillbrow. This resulted in his incarceration and appearance in Juvenile court, where he was convicted of assault. He was conscripted into the South African Air Force Gymnasium Valhalla (SAAF) 1971–1972. After spending some time in
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and the SAP Security Branch intimidation, violence and oppression on WITS students. During the second declared South
African State of Emergency in 1985/6 he was used, among other things, as the messenger between the senior university administration and their legal representation to deliver documents
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An illustrated memoir by Victor Gordon, a socially-engaged South
African-born Australian artist. His art practice incorporates strongly-held social views and personal concerns peppered with humour. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 260 images of his art work addressing an extensive range
238:(WITS) Students Representative Council (SRC) 1982–1987 as Head of Student Administration. He managed the University SRC Administration from 1982 to 1987 in a highly politicized capacity as an administrative ombudsman, ameliorating the effects of
305:(WIT) Art School until 1993 when he transferred to WIT's Orange Campus, New South Wales, to head the bigger Art, Design and Music School until the New South Wales Government funding for arts’ courses ceased in 2013.
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In 1987, due to be recalled for a second tour of duty in the SA defence force, he left South Africa to formalize his anti-Apartheid art with further study and subsequently to live in
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By that time he was a supporter of the struggle against
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167:. Gordon is primarily a painter and sculptor. He also creates installations assemblages, collages, drawings and photographs.
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Gordon, Victor; Flatau, Andrew; Dublin, Steven C; Orange
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Gordon has two children, Sarah and Hannah, and lives in Orange, NSW, Australia.
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Places not Spaces - Place making in
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era in South Africa. He grew up in
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Featuring Red Easel: Installations No.1 551 King Street
Newtown (1993)
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https://victorgordon.com/product/it-wasnt-me-i-wont-do-it-again-ebook/
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Sun shining blood everywhere : the art of Victor Gordon
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Constitutional Court Collection, Johannesburg. South Africa
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from 1988 to 1990. His graduate exhibition was titled
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Paroissien, Leon (Autumn 1992). "Art and Australia".
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of social issues.(394 Pages) available in hardcover
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753:. Sydney: Victor Gordon. p. 10.
652:. Orange, Orange Regional Gallery.
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