Patrick Goddard primarily creates video, sculpture and installation as well as working with photography, painting and drawing. His politically loaded and narrative based works undermine themselves with a self-defeating black comedy as they chart the artist’s fumbled attempts to create a personal and political integrity. Works focus on a range of topics: from ecology, the Anthropocene and the animal; to race politics, gentrification, and urbanization.
Goddard’s recent solo exhibitions include ‘Pedigree’, Seventeen, 2022; ‘Die Biester’, E-Werk, Freiburg, 2021; ‘Trip to Eclipse’, Matt’s Gallery, London 2020; ‘Go Professional’, Seventeen, 2017; ‘Looking for the Ocean Estate’ Almanac Projects, London, 2016, ‘Gone To Croatan’ at Outpost Gallery, Norwich, 2015; ‘Revolver II’ at Matt’s Gallery, London, 2014. He is also featured in the UK touring exhibition, British Art Show 9, 2021-22 and released a book of photography with the Basel based publishers Speres Projects in 2022. Goddard completed an MFA at Goldsmiths University in 2011 and a doctorate at Oxford University in 2018.
Goddard presented a solo exhibit at the inaugural Paris+ par Art Basel this October centred around a new film titled Whoopsie’s Dream.
Biography
Seventeen Exhibitions
Home Invasion
Paris + par Art Basel 2022
Pedigree
Frieze Sculpture Park 2020
Liste Art Fair Basel 2019
Real Estates
Go Professional
Seventeen Events
Press
Artnet News, 2022
Art Agenda, 2022
Jeu de Paume, 2022
C4 Journal, 2022
Time Out, 2022
Art Review, 2022
The British Journal of Photography, 2022
FVU Frames, 2021
The Guardian, 2021
Frieze, 2021
Frieze, 2019
Art Monthly, 2017
AQNB, 2017
FAD, 2017
Mousse, 2017
Artforum, 2016
Frieze, 2016
Excerpt from Patrick Goddard, Whoopsie’s Dream, 2022
Single channel 4k video with 5.1 sound
20 minutes
Premiered at Paris+ par Art Basel 2022
Interview about Animal Antics
Patrick Goddard, Funeral, 2022
Acrylic, aluminium, steel, resin, wood, fibre board, cardboard, snail shells, additive printing, acrylic paint, canvas
123 x 100 x 32 cm
Unique
Patrick Goddard, Funeral, 2022 (Detail)
Acrylic, aluminium, steel, resin, wood, fibre board, cardboard, snail shells, additive printing, acrylic paint, canvas
123 x 100 x 32 cm
Unique
Patrick Goddard, High Street, 2022 (Detail)
Acrylic, aluminium, steel, resin, wood, fibre board, cardboard, snail shells, additive printing, acrylic paint, canvas
123 x 100 x 32 cm
Unique
Patrick Goddard, High Street, 2022
Acrylic, aluminium, steel, resin, wood, fibre board, cardboard, snail shells, additive printing, acrylic paint, canvas
123 x 100 x 32 cm
Unique
Trailer for Animal Antics, 2021
Single channel video with sound
40 minutes
Installation view of Patrick Goddard, Animal Antics, 2021 at Seventeen, 2022.
Installation view of Patrick Goddard, Animal Antics, 2021 at Seventeen, 2022.
Installation view of Patrick Goddard, Plague (Downpour), 2022 at Seventeen.
Installation view of Patrick Goddard, Plague (Downpour), 2022 at Seventeen (Detail)
Installation view of Patrick Goddard’s Pedigree at Seventeen, 2022
Patrick Goddard, Animal Antics, 2021.
Single channel video with sound with viewing environment
Installation view at British Art Show 9, HOME, Manchester, 2022. Photo © Michael Pollard
Installation view of RAW, 2019 (dancefloor edition) at British Art Show 9, HOME, Manchester, 2022
Installation view of RAW, 2019 (dancefloor edition) at British Art Show 9, HOME, Manchester, 2022
Patrick Goddard, Animal Antics, 2021.
Single channel video with sound with viewing environment
Installation view at British Art Show 9, HOME, Manchester, 2022. Photo © Michael Pollard
Patrick Goddard, Looking for the Ocean Estate, 2016
Single channel video with sound, 33 minutes
Installation view at British Art Show 9, Manchester Art Gallery, 2022. Photo © Michael Pollard
Installation view of Animal Antics, 2021 at British Art Show 9, 2021
Installation view of Animal Antics, 2021 at Seventeen, 2022
Patrick Goddard, Humans-Animals-Monsters, 2020
Reclaimed lead, mirror, in 24 parts
Installation view at Frieze Sculpture Park, London 2020
Patrick Goddard, Humans-Animals-Monsters, 2020
Reclaimed lead, mirror, in 24 parts
Installation view at Frieze Sculpture Park, London 2020
Patrick Goddard, Leyton Kweff, 2019
HD video, LED screen, PA system
11 minutes 30 seconds, looping
Patrick Goddard, RAW, spelt backwards, 2019
‘Deterrent paving’ bricks, wood, scaffold, scaffold netting, 20 x motion detecting ‘anti-drug’ lights.
Installation view of Real Estates, 2019 at Seventeen
Patrick Goddard, RAW, spelt backwards, 2019
‘Deterrent paving’ bricks, wood, scaffold, scaffold netting, 20 x motion detecting ‘anti-drug’ lights.
Patrick Goddard, Works from the series Ghost House
Cyanotypes on beech plywood, UV direct to media print on acrylic
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Patrick Goddard, RAW, spelt backwards, 2019
‘Deterrent paving’ bricks, wood, scaffold, scaffold netting, 20 x motion detecting ‘anti-drug’ lights.
Patrick Goddard, Blue Sky Thinking, 2019
Recycled lead in 180 unique parts
Patrick Goddard, Blue Sky Thinking, 2019Recycled lead in 180 unique parts
Patrick Goddard, Hoard of Gold, 2019. Cyanotype on plywood, resin chewing gums.
Patrick Goddard, Catacomb of bones, 2019. (Detail) Cyanotype on plywood, resin chewing gums.
Patrick Goddard, Catacomb of bones, 2019. Cyanotype on plywood, resin chewing gums.
Patrick Goddard, Bin juice, 2019. Recycled lead sculpture in 200 individual pieces.
Installation view at Liste, Basel, 2019.
Patrick Goddard, Gone to Croatan, 2014
Single channel video with sound, earth, leaves, steel barrel, pallets, rope swing, found chair
Excerpt from: Patrick Goddard, Gone to Croatan, 2014
Single channel video with sound
32 minutes
Patrick Goddard, Greater Fool Theory, 2015
Single channel video with sound, office chairs, carpet tiles, LED lighting, lowered ceiling
Excerpt from: Patrick Goddard, Greater Fool Theory, 2015
Single channel video with sound, 34 minutes
Featuring Sam Solnick and Patrick Goddard
Made with support from Create London
Excerpt from: Patrick Goddard, Tune into Sanity FM!, 2017
Single channel video with sound, 32 minutes
Featuring Ravinder Atwal and Patrick Goddard
Made with support from Create London
Still from Patrick Goddard, Tune into Sanity FM!, 2017
Excerpt from: Patrick Goddard, Difficulties in Impression Management, 2013/16
Single channel video with sound, 14 minutes
Featuring Jack Govan
Installation view of Patrick Goddard, Looking for the Ocean Estate, 2016
Excerpt from Patrick Goddard, Looking for the Ocean Estate, 2016
Single channel video with sound, 33 minutes