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Douglas Gordon
The master of Hollywood remakes and literary allusion, Douglas Gordon, talks through his career development with Morgan Falconer.
Douglas Gordon is a very, very difficult man to track down. But with a retrospective coming up at the Hayward Gallery I persisted and finally traced him to his 'studio' in New York – in fact his baby's bedroom – and found that, for a man so elusive, Gordon has retained an admirable grasp of his roots in Glasgow and an enduring memory of his years struggling to make it happen. Born in Glasgow in 1966, he first trained at the city's School of Art. Following that, he went to the Slade with the intention of studying performance under Stuart Brisley, Bruce MacLean and Susan Hiller; not an easy decision for a Glaswegian to take. "When I finished my undergraduate degree here, it was almost like a moral ethical problem to decide whether to go to London or not – It was considered a sell-out to go there. None of my peers went; they would go to Belfast or stay in Glasgow." But when Gordon arrived at the Slade in 1988, he felt, in some sense, that he had come to the "wrong place at the wrong time" – this was the period when Goldsmith's star was in the ascendant. Moreover, as soon as he arrived, he gave up performance. "I just stopped because the climate in London didn't...
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