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ArchiveBorn 1978 in Lancashire, UK
Goodyear’s work is influenced by the formation of mythology and folklore. Her intricately detailed drawings, often on purposeless relics of the everyday, combine their own stories with those of the material they are drawn upon. Visually, natural history plays a major role in the work and she is particularly interested in the relationships between species, whether harmonious or parasitic. Most of the drawings have an element of communication within them, where the balance of power is tense and could at any moment tip either way with playful curiosity quite easily becoming sadistic torment. The bleakness of the paper surrounding each drawing is just as important as the image drawn upon it, as though all distraction of background is stripped away leaving the image exposed, frozen in time or caught in the act. The intimacy and the fine detail Goodyear injects into her drawings are intended to lure the viewer in for a closer look before revealing their subtle malevolent undertones.
Goodyear has previously exhibited in Post Notes, at the ICA, London; Drawing Links The Drawing Room, London; On that which remains Nassauischer Kunstverien, Weisbaden, Germany; The Unheimlich Leeds Metropolitan University and the Nunnery, London; The Golden Record Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Rotate Contemporary Art Society, London; Made Up Tate Liverpool; The Intertwining Line: Drawing as Subversive Art Cornerhouse, Manchester. She was also among only ten artists selected by Art Review for their emerging talent feature ‘Future Greats’ in 2008.
 Rachel Goodyear, Hoodman Blind, pencil and, watercolour on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm, 2009. |
