Felicity Gordon

Painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, socially engaged art projects

Lower Plenty

Felicity Gordon is a Naarm-based, multidisciplinary artist working across public art, installation, painting, and drawing. Her practice is grounded in a deep engagement with the natural world, drawing on Permaculture principles to explore the interconnected systems that sustain and threaten life — decay and renewal, habitat loss, and the pressures of climate change.

Central to Gordon’s work is an investigation into camouflage: not as concealment, but as a way of interrogating the uneasy, often contradictory relationship between humans and nature. Recent experiments have involved merging camouflage with inky drawings created in the life drawing room.

Gordon approaches her practice as a living system, one that grows through collaboration, community building and site-responsive work.

Gordon has exhibited widely and participated in residencies including the FLOAT Residency Program in East Gippsland (2020–21) and a Drawing Marathon in New York. In 2019 she was awarded the Small Works Prize at the Mildura Contemporary Art Prize. She teaches art and design at the VCA.

Works on display include nudity.