On this episode I speak to the wonderful artist Rachel Goodyear. Goodyear (b. 1978, Lancashire, UK) lives and works in Manchester and Salford and is a long term active studio member of Islington Mill. Goodyear exhibits nationally and internationally with works held in a number of collections worldwide. Influenced by feminist surrealism, Goodyear creates a world that is quietly unsettling and often playful. Intricately rendered in pencil and watercolour on paper and recent expansions into oil paint on canvas her figures, plants and animals shift and overlap, caught in moments of searching, encountering and entangling. Solo exhibitions include Stirrings, The Grundy Art Gallery and Salford Museum and Art Gallery; Catching Sight, The New Art Gallery Walsall ; Approaching the Surface, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; Restless Guests, The Drawing Center, New York; and Modifications of the Host, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Goodyear’s work features in Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, published by Phaidon 2021.
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