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A selection of new videos by Jordan Baseman - a mixture of projections and monitor-based works - will be shown separately and sequentially in five constructed spaces within Matt’s Gallery. The works chosen for don’t stop ’til you get enough all follow a narrative structure and have a semi-documentary character, and range from stark and uncompromising to tender and comical portraits. This is the first time that the works will be shown together in the UK.

In the video don’t stop ’til you get enough, Michael Jackson impersonators describe their dreams involving Jackson and their feelings about dancing competitively. Images of drawings of Michael Jackson created by Jackson fans around the world accompany the voiceover.

Gordon Rowley, the former president of The British Succulent Society (cactus-lover and Spike Milligan aficionado) is the subject of the video CASTASIA!
July the Twelfth 1984 is based on the live audio recording of the countdown to the State of Georgia’s execution of Ivon Ray Stanley.
Daniel, a Romanian street beggar in Rome, is interviewed and filmed in the work Daniel. The questions raised by the interviewer derive from questions that children would like to ask God.

Jordan Baseman has recently completed a Visiting Arts Fellowship at Monash University, Melbourne Australia, and was the Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow at The British School in Rome in 2003.

The artist would like to thank: Paul Carter, Richard Cramp, John Frankland, Jonathan Garner, Ben Heasman, Ben Iliffe, Jee Min Kim, Ocean Mims, Simon Phillips, Carolyn Thompson, Matthew Tickle, Menelaos Triantafyllides.

Biography
Studied 1986-1988 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London; 1979-1983 BA (hons) Fine Art, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Solo Exhibitions 2007 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Nature's Great Experiment, Forum, Wellcome Collection, London; Tape 1 Tape 2, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2006 luv is gonna get you someday, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal; Sunday Morning, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2005 don't stop 'til you get enough, Matt's Gallery, London 2004 July The Twelfth 1984, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2003 City of Angels, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland; EF103 603, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland 2002 1 + 1 = 1 / Under the Blood, Art Gallery + Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa; Under the Blood / 1 + 1 = 1, Wysing Arts, Cambridge 2001 Raceway Queen, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Lonesome Town, The Laing Gallery, Newcastle; The Comedians, The Newman Rooms, Oxford 2000 here, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria 1999 the history of existentialism, Wigmore Fine Art, London 1998 SHUP a screenplay/Performance, The Agency, London; more lies, Mario Flecha Gallery, Girona, Spain 1997 The Party and other things, Richard Salmon Gallery, London; blunt objects, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria; ths, marriages, and deaths, The Serpentine Gallery @ Marylebone Town Hall, London 1996 vox humana, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria 1994 F is for love, Mario Flecha Gallery, London and HeberPercy Gallery, Warwickshire 1993 Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels Group Exhibitions & Screenings 2007 Heart, Wellcome Trust, London; The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous, Purescreen, Manchester; Alchemy Artists, Manchester Museum, Manchester 2006 Open Video Library, Zaim, Yokahama, Japan; Hospitality, Accademia Tedesca, Villa Massimo, Rome; No Place Like Home, Beacon Art Project, Boston, Lincolnshire; Arcade, ACAVA Studios, London; Vox Pop, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle; Contingency Plan, C.A.S.T., Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; Et Tu Tribute, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh 2005 Variety, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea; Crossing Borders, Berwick Film Festival, Berwick upon Tweed; Our Surroundings, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Size Matters, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire 2004 Six Thousand Chairs, Crystal Palace, London; Bad Behavior, Yorshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire; AGORA, Transition Gallery, London; Feast of Silenus, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh; Island Art Film/Video Festival, UGC Cinema, Docklands, London; Wonderful/Visions of the Near Future, Arnolfini, Bristol (National Touring Exhibition); Volume, Moving Pictures, St. Georges, Bristol; Brides of March, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh 2003 La Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome; Radio Radio, The International 3, Manchester; In Good Form, Yorshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire; Animality, Blue Oyster Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.; The Human Zoo, University of Newcastle, Newcastle; Further Up In The Air, Linosa Close, Liverpool; Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol; Don’t Look Down, The Nunnery, London; Infallible: In Search of the Real George Elliot, ATP, London; CHOCKERFUCKINGBLOCKED, Jeffrey Charles, London Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London 2002 Medicate, Art Gallery + Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa; Somewhere, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Telling Lies, Forde Gallery, Geneva; Going Continental, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; Hygiene, THRILLER, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; TV Swansong, THE LAST BROADCAST: http://www.swansong.tv/index2.htm; Regards..., Galerie Alain le Gaillard, Paris; it rocks, but gently... Folly Gallery, Lancaster; Second Skin, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; file sound art, City Space, Birmingham; No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith, Central Space, London 2001 Interstanding 4:End Repeat, Estonia Center for Contemporary Art, Talin; Project:Film and Video, Pittville Room, Cheltenham; The Great Escape, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria; things are not what they seem to be, Galway Arts Center, Galway 2000 a different kind of show, Whitechapel Gallery, London; ...not enough, Velan Contemporary Art, Turin; The Grizedale Show, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria; Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Now Festival, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Brief Encounters Film Festival, Bristol; Visions, City of Westminster Arts Council, London; Art in Motion Film Festival, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; SelfService, 5 Years, Underwood Street, London; John, I’m Only Dancing. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1999 The Anagrammatical Body, New Museum, Graz, Austria; East Wing Collection, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; The Passage, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; Saatchi at Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Tension, Greene Gallery, Geneva; Passion, Gasworks, London; 1998 Fun de Seicle, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall; Art Futures, Royal Festival Hall, London; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; fly, work for the eye to do/King Mob, London; Personal Effects, Spacex, Exeter 1997 Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Oak Repels Lightning, Science Museum, London; The Look of Love, Rear Window, the approach, London Recent Acquisitions, University of California, Berkeley 1996 A Cloudburst of Material Possessions, Purdey Hicks Gallery, London; Young British Artists VI, Saatchi Gallery, London; Plastic, Richard Salmon Gallery, London + Arnolfini, Bristol; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; love and death and all that, Galerie H S Steinek, Vienna; The Gas Station, The Ruskin School, Oxford; Love at Firstsite, Firstsite, Colchester; British Art Show 4, South Bank Centre, National Touring Exhibition 1996 Care and Control, Rear Window, Hackney Hospital, London; Real Time, London; composite, adj., Arnolfini, Bristol; Fetishism, South Bank Centre, National Touring Exhibition 1996 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London; Vitrines, Galerie Guy Ledune/Acte, Brussels; Miniatures, The Agency, London; 1992 With Attitude, Galerie Guy Ledune/British Council, Brussels; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Double Vision, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London; EAST/SOUTH, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design 1991 EAST, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design 1990 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Selected Commissions and Awards 2006-08 Alchemy Fellowship, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester; 2006 Research and Development Award, Wellcome Trust, London; Arts and Humanities Research Council, England; Visiting Artist Fellowship, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; Sunday Morning, Commission for Site Gallery, Sheffield 2005 2004 Visiting Artist Fellowship, University of Monash Melbourne, Australia 2003 Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow, British School at Rome; CACTASIA! and I WANT TO CREATE A MULTIPETALLED FLOWER OF A DIFFERENT COLOR Commission for Eden Project, Cornwall; City of Angels, Commission for National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland 2002 How to Hover, Commission for Further Up In The Air Project, Liverpool; 1 + 1 = 1 and Under the Blood, Commission for Papworth Hospital; THRILLER, Commission for Hygiene Exhibition at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2001 TV Swansong, THE LAST BROADCAST , Commission for webcast, http://www.swansong.tv/index2.htm 2000 The Comedians, Arts Council of England Film and Video Awards; Commission for DA2, Bristol/The Laboratory, Oxford; I Love L.A., Year of the Artist Award, Artist in Residence, London Arts Board; Film/Video Bursary, Westminster Arts Council, London; Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria 1999 Awards to Individual Artists, London Arts Board 1997 First Time Publishing Grant, Arts Council of England; Some People Believe, Commission for Materials Gallery, Science Museum, London 1995 Artist in Residence, Camden Arts Centre, London 1994 Awards to Individual Artists, London Arts Board