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Felicity Gordon is a visual artist based in Melbourne. Felicity has worked in many mediums including various sculptural and two dimensional mediums, but currently focuses on oil on canvas. Felicity's work is influenced by constructs of gender and her experiences as a woman. Art Stream's Peter Doherty once called her "a guerrilla girl at heart" (Art Streams, March/April 2000. p.7).

69 Smith Street Gallery described Felicity's exhibition Stalking Anchovies as "an exhibition of super clean paintings. There is no dust, clutter or frivolous detail. Each painting contains two or three precisely painted figures, household objects, buildings or natural elements. In each painting Felicity Gordon presents a fantastic and minimal world that is eternally bright and clean. These configurations of people and objects, juxtaposed in imaginary spaces, present as poetic riddles. Gordon's intention is to bring private insights into the public realm. This body of work relies on realism and the formal elements of portraiture which offer instant points of entry for viewers. Although the content of Gordon's work orginates in a fascination with identity and gender power relations, humor is an imporant element".

Felicity has completed a BA Honours in Painting at R.M.I.T., a Post-graduate Diploma in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts and Post-graduate Diploma of Vocational Education at Melbourne University. Felicity was awarded second place the Norma Bull Portrait Scholarship in 1990.

Selected solo exhibitions include:

2003 "How safe are we? ", Artary Project, Regent
2003 "Leonardo's Shoes", Online Exhibition
2002 "Burn", 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2000 "Stalking Anchovies", 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
1998 "Small is Big", Artistcare Gallery, South Melbourne
1996 "Dicks at Linden", Linden Gallery, St. Kilda
1995 "Sister" Maryborough Regional Arts Centre
1994 "Security", Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions include:

2008 "Ellen Mileo Contemporary Art Prize" 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2005 "Darebin/La Trobe Art Prize" Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2004 "Members Only!" Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2003 "Bundoora Art Prize" Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2001 "Postcard Show" Linden Gallery, St. Kilda
2001 "Flesh 0.2" 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2001 "Small works to farewell Spring" St. Andrews Gallery, St. Andrews
2001 "Indulgence" 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2000 "Threads", 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
1998 Moonee Valley Community Art Exhibition
1998 "9 X 5 By Twenty Five", The Vic Walk Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre
1997 "Address", Ararat Regional Art Gallery
1997 Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham
1997 "Murdoch Travelling Scholarship", Victorian College of the Arts
1995 Self-Portrait Show, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
1995 Women's Art Register, Group Platform Spencer Street Station
1994 "Crack the Egg", Access Gallery, South Melbourne
1993 V.T.U. Credit Union Art Exhibition, Caulfield Arts Complex
1992 Westbank Women's Artists, Footscray Arts Complex, Footscray
1991 Post Graduate Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1990 Felicity Gordon, Rachael Robb and Jacinta Schreuder, Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne