RACHEL GOODYEAR

Clare Lilley (Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park) explains: ‘Goodyear’s people and creatures are located in a white and boundless world. It is both an unknown place and one which is familiar: the place of a dreamlike state and perhaps, too, the place where we feel most alone and distant from society – the hinterland of the mind.’

Rachel Goodyear (b. 1978, Lancashire, UK) studied at Hopwood Hall, Rochdale, and Leeds Metropolitan University. Her recent solo exhibitions include Stirrings, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, travelling to Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford (2022-23); Leeds Arts University (2021); Solitary Acts, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, online, London (2021); Catching Sight, The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2017); Dancing Devils, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, The Box, London (2018); Glimpse, The Lowry, Salford (2016); Approaching the Surface, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2016); and Restless Guests, The Drawing Center, NY (2015-16. Her recent group exhibitions include A Line Around An Idea: ways of knowing through contemporary drawing practices, The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland; Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth, Manchester (2022); The Way We Are 2.0, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, (2020-21); Human Nature, York Art Gallery, York (2020-21); Peer to Peer, __UK/HK, London (2020); 20:20 Twenty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art, The New Art Gallery, Westall (2020); A Trick of the Light, Grundy Art Gallery, London (2019), Monty, Copperfield Gallery, London (2019); Artists in Focus, The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2018). Goodyear has also exhibited at The Whitworth, Manchester (2015); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2013); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2012); Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (2011); Tate Liverpool (2009); Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2008); and ICA, London (2005).

Goodyear has been selected for the Innsbruck International Biennale of the Arts, Austria (2016); the Curitiba Biennale, Brazil (2013) the Liverpool Biennial (2008) and The Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London (2024, 2017, 2015, 2013). Goodyear spoke at Tate Modern as part of a panel on the Dorothea Tanning exhibition, touring from Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2019), and has participated in symposia at the Henry Moore Institute (2020). Her collections include the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; The Whitworth, Manchester; The Olbricht Collection, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Bury St Edwards, Collection Pennine Arts, UK and The New Art Gallery, Walsall, among others.

Text courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.