Collection: RICKY LEE GORDON

Ricky Lee Gordon was born in Johannesburg in 1984 and is now based in Bali. His studio practice developed alongside a long engagement with public art, environmental projects and artist led spaces in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Under the idea of painting nature with nature, Gordon creates landscapes using pigments and dyes found in the natural world. His processes include oxidised plant dyes, rock pigment, indigo, charcoal, beeswax, cyanotype and copper engraving. Materials are allowed to stain, react and change so that the making of the work becomes a meditation on the interconnectedness of living systems. The ocean remains a recurring presence and source of both material and imagery.

Circle Culture has presented Gordon’s work since 2023 in Berlin and Hamburg.