About

Austen Gordon (b.1987) completed her Btech in Interior Design at Tshwane University of Technology and since then worked as a designer, teacher and marketing manager. In 2023, Austen left her full time position to pursue painting and art full time.

Austen's work explores illustrative realism, wordplay and principles of aestheticism. She loves to use surprising colour combinations in her works and apply her visuals to a variety of substrates. She is interested in taking a theme or a subject matter and working and re-working it and watching it evolve and change. 

Currently, she is focused on creating bright blooms, nestled in quirky patterned vases, set against a variety of backdrops, some plain, some patterned. Working freely, choosing bold colours at whim, adding freehand patterns and motifs to vases and tablecloths, she is expanding her creative play, outside of her sketchbook.

EXHIBITIONS

2025
'With friends like these', solo exhibition, Du Toitskloof Wine Estate, Cape Town
'Ides of March', group exhibition, 131A Gallery, Cape Town

2024
'Is it Summer yet?', independent solo show & online catalogue
'Ode to Autumn', group exhibition, 131A Gallery, Cape Town
'End of Summer', independent solo show & online catalogue

2023
'About Nature, independent solo show, hosted at The Ladder, Cape Town

2021
'All eggs are good eggs', independent solo show, hosted at The Ladder, Cape Town