About the Art of Col Jordan

Jordan's "painstaking attention to detail forcefully evokes something less tangible: a meditative, spiritual quality that is the hallmark of any art which transcends time, place and culture." "Far from being a static geometrical exercise in design, the result is a dancing. Highly organic celebration of life in all its mystery."

William Yeoman writing in "The Weekend West"

"Jordan has been highly influential in Australian abstract painting and the original stimulus of hardedge abstraction and op-art can still be seen as he surreptitiously plays with signs of all kinds."

Ric Spencer writing in "The Westrolian"

Jordan "lives and works in Sydney's western suburbs where he was born and raised, an even crazier patchwork of concrete, blazing signs and raw energy. The raucous fragments of colour jostling for attention in his Mosaic series are evocative of the carnivalesque signage that lines the busy arterial road running past his studio. Like the skilful Daedalus of Greek mythology, Col Jordan continues to weave his enigmatic riddles, working with undiminished passion and energy."

Michael Beare writing in the catalogue for "Col Jordan - An Active Edge" a retrospective exhibition at the Wollongong City Art Gallery

"For all the rigidity of edge and firmness of form, nothing in the paintings and sculptures of Col Jordan is settled for long. Edges quiver and shudder, areas seem to move before our eyes, forms continually shift about in paradoxical realignments. Nothing remains stable, all is equivocal. For all their monumentality and grandeur and geometry, ColJordan's paintings, like Godfrey Miller's before him, are about flux and transience"

Emeritus Professor Peter Pinson writing in his book "Col Jordan - Edge and Paradox"