Sally Gordon England, b. 1958

Sally Gordon is a painter and printmaker whose work confronts the complexities of power, vulnerability, and systemic injustice. Her practice addresses corruption, institutional failure, and the specific inequities often faced by women, exploring how personal and collective experience is shaped by hidden or coercive forces. Her subject matter encompasses architecture, still life, narrative scenes, and situations drawn from both personal experience and stories in the press.

 

During her 2023 residency in Mexico City, Gordon created a body of work in which the intense colour, texture, and rhythm of urban and natural landscapes enhanced the playful forms in her work, counterbalancing the often difficult subject matter. Mexico’s forms, patterns, and architectural presence provided a framework in which abstraction and figuration could coexist, allowing her to translate political and social investigations into compositions that are formally inventive, visually compelling and emotionally resonant.