About

Bruce Jordan is a visual artist & contemporary jewellery designer based in Sweden whose figurative paintings explore identity, belonging and the everyday structures of contemporary Swedish life.

His current painting series, Hon är här, explores belonging and identity through ordinary moments/routines in familiar environments.

He holds a BA in Visual Arts, specialising in Jewellery Design, from Stellenbosch University and an MA in Jewellery Design from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.He later trained for an upper-secondary teaching degree from Umeå University and has worked in art education in Sweden for more than a decade.

Exhibitions

  • Weird about wire: Stellenbosch University (collaborated with Holland`s contemporary jewellery designer Karin Kortenhorst), (2003).

  • Telephone Wire Design: College of Cape Town (in collaboration with contemporary jewellery designers Martina Dempf & Beverly Price), (2004).

  • Ruth Prowse Restoration: Ruth Prowse School of Arts: Cape Town (2004).

  • Jewellery exhibition: Craft Council Bus factory, Johannesburg (2005).

  • Jewellex symposium: Johannesburg (2005).

  • Africa Adorned: Design Africa: Cape Town (2005).

  • Beadazzled, Deco lodge (Self curated Jewellery and art exhibition). Invited artists: Uta Goebel-Gross (Germany); Jeff Mwazha of Street Wires (Zimbabwe): Cape Town (2005).

  • Art from the Heart: Artscape Theatre In conjunction with the Umoja Dance Musical: Cape Town (2006)

  • Positive: Sun City: Northern Province. (2006)

  • B2 Collective: Stellenbosch (2006)

  • Jewellex Symposium: Johannesburg (2006)

  • Design Indaba,Young Emerging Creatives : Cape Town (2007)

  • SRC Art and Photo Competition: Stellenbosch (2007)

  • Schmuck 2007:Munich (2007)

  • Martina Dempf Gallery: Berlin, Germany (2007)

  • Turnov International Jewellery Symposium, Czech Republic (2007)

  • Design Indaba, Cape-Town (2007)

  • Icons: Stellenbosch (2008)

  • Inventions: Gold Museum, Cape Town (2008)

  • Gradex, Depart: Stellenbosch University (2008)

Publications

  • Internatinale Samenwerking (IS) January 2004)

  • Weird about Wire, Karin Kortenhorst 2003 (available: online )

  • Positive Catalogue 2006 (available online: www.suninternational.com)

  • “New horizons”,Contemporary Jewellery from South Africa (2007)

  • “Depart”,Stellenbosch University Graduate Catalogue (2008)

  • “PlatAfrica” 2008 Platinum Awards Competition, ( available online: www.angloplatinum.com/jewellery), (2008)