Gordon studio glass blowers

1959 Born Melbourne, Australia

1979-80 Certificate of Agriculture, Sunraysia College of TAFE.

1981 Diploma of Farm Management Marcus Oldham Farm Management College.

1982-88 Farm Manager on various properties in NSW, Vic. & Tasmania.

1984 Worked on property, Northern Germany . Travelled through Europe.

1988 Bought a Dairy Farm, Numurkah, Vic

1990 Assisted partner, Eileen Gordon, to establish ‘Gordon Studio Glass blowers’, Numurkah, Vic.

1994 Sold Farm & relocated ‘Gordon Studio Glass blowers’ to Rosebud, Vic. Full time Glass blowing, Developing own production line and exhibition glassware.

2005 Eileen and Grant closed their Rosebud glassworks and opened a specially designed glass workshop/studio and gallery/viewing space at Red Hill in the beautiful hinterland of the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. The studio is also used by other glass blowers and is now a tourist attraction, open 7 days a week.

EXHIBITIONS:

1996 Sea in Glass, Peninsula Galleries, Sorrento, Vic.

1997 The Gordon Family, Glass Artist Gallery, Glebe, NSW Group Show, Arica Gallery, Nedlands, WA

1998 Without Pier, Family Exhibit, Sandringham, Vic.

1999 Azecra Kimono Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan.
Munich International Craft Fair, Germany.
Interior DesignEx Show, Melbourne, Vic

2000 Munich International Craft Fair, Germany.
Translucence, Johnstone Gallery Revisited, Brisbane, Qld

2001 Munich International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany.
Without Pier, Sandringham, Vic.
Ausglass Conference, Members Exhibition, Melbourne
Commissioned for 16 Vases for the CHOGM Candidates.
SOFA – Chicago, USA.

2002 Commissioned for 3 vases for Crown Casino, Melbourne.
Munich International Craft Fair, Germany
SOFA – Chicago, USA The Journey . Eileen Gordon and Grant Donaldson, Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne, Vic.

2003 Ausglass Members Show

2005 Members Exhibition, GAS Conference, Adelaide

2006 Land Collaboration with painter Mike Green, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne.
The Gordon family, Kirra Gallery, Melbourne.
Outback and Beyond,Seaview Gallery, Queens cliff

2007 Glass is Oxygen, without Pier Gallery,Cheltenham

2008 Cool Climate Glass, Lindenderry at Red Hill

2008 Sculpture in a Drier Land, Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.

2008 Artanica Garden Sculpture, Duniera, Mount Macedon.

2008 Some like it Hot, Glass Plus Gallery, South Melbourne.

PUBLICATIONS:

2006 Hammond,V.,“Land” exhibition catalogue