ABOUT
Alison Goodyear is a visual artist, researcher and educator based in Bedfordshire in the UK. Initially, her early art practice involved working as an abstract painter, using paint on canvas. Over the course of the past two years this practice has evolved into working on painting in the expanded field, testing what it is we understand as painting today and what that might mean for both the artist/maker/producer and the viewer/participant/contributor. This development came about through a residency at Vertigo VR based in Milton Keynes leading to the development of a physical and virtual body of work. This work was exhibited as an installation called Paint Park at MK Gallery Project Space during February 2020, for which Goodyear successfully secured funding and support from The Arts Council England (twice), University of Northampton, MK Gallery, Hewlett Packard, HTC, Google Tilt Brush and Vertigo VR.
Goodyear makes paintings that explore ideas and possibilities of how an artwork might intervene in the ‘normal’ regime of vision, whilst questioning the materiality of paint and process. The relationship of beholder to painting is addressed by toying with the viewing experience using materials like silk, paint mediums, including digital photography of her physical paint palettes, and more recently, imagery from her virtual reality paintings. These different ways of making, as well as chronicling process within process, combine the mindless with the mindful, digital with physical, production with reproduction, and what might be described as ‘authentic’ with ‘inauthentic’.
Some of these works are produced in groups as a type of hybrid serialization, which she describes as abstract narrative. Here each canvas is analogous to a word or phrase, sharing some form of dialogue between them. As such, these works involve a kind of thinking inside and outside the work, which is reinforced by the way they are put together.
This work connects with Goodyear’s practice led PhD research, completed at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School, University of the Arts London in 2017, supervised by Professor Malcolm Quinn and Professor Daniel Sturgis. This research practice examines the threshold between aesthetic and banal absorption in painter to painting relationships drawing on the theories of Denis Diderot, Michael Fried and David Joselit. It achieves this through a collaborative address to and from painting practice.
EXHIBITIONS
2020
SeeMe (Art Saves Humanity)
Online exhibition:
https://www.see.me
Shortlisted Top 100
Paint Park
MK Gallery Project Space
Milton Keynes
Online Resident Artist
Gazellio Digital Art House
For Gazelli Art House
Mayfair, London
2019
Amalgamation
Cello Factory, Lambeth, London
With Alexander Hinks (Curator),
Wendy Anderson, John Bunker,
Gary Colclough, Dan Coombs,
Will Cruikshank, Robert Dunt, Tom Hemming,
Juliette Losq, Anna Lytridou, Anna Reading,
Sirpa Pajunen-Moghissi & Thomas J. Ridley
Substantif
Arthouse1, Bermondsey, London
With Jim Cheatle (Curator), Alexis Harding,
Antoine Langenieux, Peter Lamb,
Donal Moloney & Sarah Kate Wilson
Contemporary British Painting 2018
Menier Art Gallery, Bankside, London
With Keith Ashcroft, Lucy Austin, Benjamin Deakin,
Kate Dunn, Jenny Eden, Andrew Ekins,
Pippa Gatty, Roland Hicks, Rachel Lancaster,
Joe Packer & Jonathan West
2018
SFSA Painting Open
No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
Contemporary British Painting 2018
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Selected by: Simon Carter,
Paula MacArthur, Ruth Philo & Narbi Price
Judged by: Matthew Collings, Amisha Karia
& Grant Scanlan
Paint Lounge
Sluice Exchange, Kühlhaus, Berlin
With Julius Bobke, Katrin Bremmermann,
Simon Burton, Lisa Denyer, Geraint Evans,
Pius Fox, Alastair Gordon, John Greenwood,
Vincent Hawkins, Linda Hemmersbach,
Gabriele Herzog, Stelios Karamanolis,
Erika Krause, Paula MacArthur, Ruth Philo,
Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Charley Peters,
Alex Roberts, Wendy Saunders,
Sophia Schama, Nicola Stäglich,
Geraldine Swayne, Miriam Vlaming,
Casper White & Michaela Zimmer
Second Floor Drawing Open
No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
Surfaced: Surface and Materiality
in the Screen Environment
Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Greenwich
With Jim Cheatle (Curator), Alexis Harding,
Antoine Langenieux, Peter Lamb,
Donal Moloney & Sarah Kate Wilson
The Hearth
Gallery 35, Brighton
Undead Painters FLASH SALON 4
Saturation Point Space, Deptford, London
NN Open
NN Contemporary, Northampton
Selected by Kaavous Clayton,
Jules Devonshire & Roxy Walsh
2017
Rye Winter Salon
Rye Creative Centre, Rye
Selected by Victoria Howarth & Paula MacArthur
Make your Mark
PIY Paint Lounge, Sluice Biennial, London
The Image
Venice International University, Venice, Italy
May Day May Day
Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol
MK Calling
MK Gallery, Buckinghamshire
Selected by Anthony Spira, Catherine Hemelryk,
Claire Corrin, Francesca Skelton & Simon Wright
Suspicious Minds: Painting Experiments
ACE funded R&D Interim Exhibition,
NN Project Space, Northampton
Undead Painters FLASH SALON III
Saturation Point Space, Deptford, London
THIS YEAR'S MODEL part II: Deep Space
Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London
2016
Summer Salon
Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes, London
Curated by Sanmartino, Mangrai, Lubomirov,
Falbo, Damary, Bleeker & Angus-Hughes
Undead Painters FLASH SALON
Bondhouse Gallery, London
Hosted by Rosalind Davis,
Selected by James Petrucci & Alastair Gordon
Spectrum
PS Mirabel, Manchester
Selected by Mark Doyle, Lisa Denyer,
Magnus Quaife & Robert Miller
2015
Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition
Bondhouse Gallery, London
MK Calling
MK Gallery, Buckinghamshire
12HRS
Guest Projects, London
Selected by Kathryn Miller, alt MFA,
Friends International Jamboree
First Outing
Curated by Sally Annett
Touring Bedfordshire
Pop Living
Curated by Ismail Erbil
Schwartz Gallery, London
2014
Wild Things
Solo Exhibition ACE funded R&D
Animal Gallery, Bedford
Art Athina
Athens, Greece
Selected by Iavor Lubomirov & Bella Easton
2013
NN Open
NN, Northampton
Selected by Gareth Bell-Jones
and Jennie Syson
Eastern Approaches
UH Gallery, Hertfordshire
Selected by Niki Braithwaite,
Teresa Grimes & Simeon Nelson
The Everyday Image
The Art Department Gallery, Chicago, USA
Visual Symposium
Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV), London
Recalculating
Triangle Space, London
Beep
Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Selected by Catrin Webster,
Neale Howells & Rob Newell
2012
Drawing Open
One Church Street Gallery, Buckinghamshire
Position, Place, Situate, Locate
Triangle Space, London
SCREENINGS
2020
Turvy underneath
SeeMe (Art Saves Humanity)
Online exhibition:
https://www.see.me
Paint Park: Painting Experiments from a Virtual Studio
MK Gallery Project Space
Milton Keynes
2019
Open Projections 4: Spectacle
Coventry Cathedral
Amalgamation
Cello Factory, Lambeth, London
With Alexander Hinks (Curator),
Wendy Anderson, John Bunker,
Gary Colclough, Dan Coombs,
Will Cruikshank, Robert Dunt, Tom Hemming,
Juliette Losq, Anna Lytridou, Anna Reading,
Sirpa Pajunen-Moghissi, & Thomas J. Ridley
DIALOGUES/TEXTS
2020
Paint Park Artist Talk
MK Gallery Project Space
2019
Lee Krasner: Living Colour’:
Dead Husbands, Other Stories, Go Girlfriend!
Charley Peters hosts a discussion with artists
Alison Goodyear, Clare Price and EC about the exhibition ‘Lee Krasner: Living Colour’.
Merged Futures 2019
Presentation + demo
University of Northampton
Abstract Painting Practice: Expanding in a Virtual World
TVX Conference
Paper demo
The Lowry and BBC Media City, Salford
https://tvx.acm.org/2019/demos-programme/
2018
Contemporary British Painting 2018 Catalogue
John Bunker: Tainted Love: Thoughts on ‘Surfaced: Surface and Materiality in the Screen Environment’
Paint Lounge Painters in Conversation
Sluice Exchange, Kühlhaus, Berlin
The painting process
Led by Simon Burton with Vincent Hawkins,
Alison Goodyear, Linda Hemmersbach,
Katrin Bremermann, Erika Krause,
Julius Bobke & Pius Fox
Painting and screens
Led by Charley Peters with
Wendy Saunders, Alison Goodyear,
Gabriele Herzog & Sophia Schama
Success medium
Led by Paula MacArthur with
Alison Goodyear, John Greenwood,
Miriam Vlaming & Stelios Karamanolis
Altered Agency in the Studio: Assessing a
Collaborative Approach to Painting Practice
Paper Presentation
The International Conference on the Image,
Venice, Italy
2017
Privileged, Unique and Temporary
PhD Forum,
Wimbledon College of Arts, London
2016
Undead Painters Forum VII
Bondhouse Gallery, London
Negotiating the Past: Aesthetic Absorption
and Painting Practice
Paper Presentation
The International Conference on the Image,
John Moores University, Liverpool
2015
Conversations about Painting in Time
Chaired talk with Kate Hawkins,
Paint Club Event
The Tetley, Leeds
Precarity: Practice and the PhD
Paper Presentation
Visual Artists Today Symposium,
Birkbeck University, London
2014
Reflecting on the Painter and Process:
a Dialogical Approach
Paper Presentation
The International Conference
on Visual & Performing Arts,
Athens, Greece
Painting as a Document
Chaired panel discussion with
Clare Woods & Barry Schwabsky,
Tate Britain, London
There's a Ghost in my House
Steering committee
Paint Club Event
Tate Britain, London
Playing with the Substrate
Paper Presentation
Developing the Substrate Symposium,
Chelsea College of Arts, London
2013
Absorption and the Arts:
Assessing Michael Fried’s Legacy
Paper Presentation
The International Conference on the Image,
Chicago, USA
Visual Symposium
Steering committee
Paint Club Event
Beaconsfield, London
2012
Dialogue on Practice
The Practice Exchange
Chelsea College of Arts, London
2012-2015
Paint Club
Steering committee
UAL research group
AWARDS
2020
Arts Council England Projects Funding
Paint Park Paint Park Phase 2 + 3:
4-week exhibition installation and programme
of events focusing on virtual + physical paintings
MK Gallery Project Space
2019
Arts Council England Projects Funding
Paint Park Phase 1:
10-week project making physical + virtual paintings
A-N Artist Bursary Funding
VR painting software training project
2018
Contemporary British Painting 2018 Shortlist
2017
Student Research Grant, UAL
Venice presentation
2016
Arts Council England Funding G4A
12 month R&D painting/curatorial project
Student Research Grant, UAL
Liverpool presentation
Curatorial Open Stage 2 Shortlist
KARST, Plymouth
2015
Curatorial Fellowship Shortlist
APT Gallery, London
2014
Arts Council England Funding G4A
6 month Research & Development project
AIR funding
Collaborative project, Falmouth University
Student Research Grant, UAL
Athens presentation
2013
Student Research Grant, UAL
Chicago presentation and exhibition
2012
Beep Welsh International Painting Prize Shortlist
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Drawing Open Shortlist
One Church Street Gallery, Buckinghamshire
2011
Participating Artist
Creative Schools Network, Bedfordshire
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
The Kempston Charities Award
EDUCATION
2018
Introduction to Augmented Reality and AR Core
Google AR & VR
Coursera
2017
Practice led PhD
Privileged, unique and temporary: interpreting aesthetic experiences of the painter-painting relationship through an address to and from practice.
Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Graduate School,
University of the Arts London
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.738025
2013
Developing Academic Practice
Centre for Learning & Teaching in Art & Design,
University of the Arts London
2011
PGCE
University of Bedfordshire
2007
MA Art & Design
University of Bedfordshire
1994
BA (Hons) Graphic Design & Illustration
Staffordshire University
TEACHING
2020
Paint Park VR Painting Workshops
MK Gallery Project Space
Visiting Artist
Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London
2018-19
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
University of Northampton
2015
Graduate Sessional Lecturer
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2009-13
Sessional Lecturer
Milton Keynes College: HMP Littlehey