Kevin Gordon is a leading Australian glass artist whose practice spans over four decades. He established his first studio in 1990, specialising in architectural glass, and later co-founded a cold glass studio in Melbourne with Gordon Studio Glassblowers. After years working across Perth and Melbourne, he is now based on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
Gordon’s vessels are renowned for their technical precision and luminous complexity—blown glass intricately engraved, sandblasted, and lathe-cut to reveal layered colour and refracted light. His work is held in major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, and he is a recipient of the Tom Malone Glass Prize and the Illumination Glass Award. He continues to exhibit internationally.
For this exhibition I am continuing my work in sea form and cell form, the use of fractals, basic elemental designs repeat to form infinite complexity that emerges from simple design, echoing the patterns found universally. In the design process of my work I look for how nature evolves, I look for the underlying logic and formulas that create natures designs. I use this by breaking down the design to the basic elements. The intricate world of the cellular, transforming the microscopic building blocks of life into expansive visual narratives.
Each piece is an exploration of the fundamental processes that underpin all existence: growth, division, communication, and decay. I am endlessly fascinated by the paradox of their simplicity and the immense complexity they generate, the dynamic dance between order and seeming chaos that unfolds within each living boundary.
Kevin Gordon, 2025
