The Lowry galleries are turning into project spaces (Sat 24 September – Sun 9 October) with a season of short residencies. Giving artists and performers, including Manchester-based Rachel Goodyear, room to be impulsive, experimental, and get closer to their audiences.
Born in Oldham, Goodyear attended Hulme Grammar before continuing her studies on the Art Foundation at Rochdale’s Hopwood Hall College and Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University. Working predominantly in pencil and ink she creates intricate but sparse images that capture notions of fragmented recollections, false memories and unconscious fears and desires that bubble up from the psyche. Goodyear works mostly on paper, but will often allow her practice to playfully expand into projections, animations and installation.
A special studio will be built inside the gallery at The Lowry for Rachel Goodyear to work in. Previous drawings and animations will be presented on the walls of the gallery while she creates new works in the studio. Visitors will have the chance to meet the artist and talk about her work.
Based at the Islington Mill studios in Salford, Rachel Goodyear said, “This is an incredible opportunity to make new work in The Lowry galleries and to offer visitors a glimpse into the often private world of the studio.”
Goodyear will be bringing her giant drawing board to The Lowry and nothing else, providing the opportunity to start something completely new. Her work will be informed by the people she meets and the conversations she has during her stay at the Salford arts venue.
Her work has been exhibited and collected in the UK and internationally. She was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize in 2009 and has undertaken residencies at The Banff Center, Canada; and Flux Factory, New York. Solo exhibitions include ‘Restless Guests’, The Drawing Center, New York; and ‘Modifications of the Host’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Group shows have included ‘Drawing Stories’, Folkwang Museum, Essen; The Curitiba Biennial, Brazil; ‘Made Up’, Tate Liverpool. Live collaborations with musicians and dancers have included ‘Blind Spots’, The Contact Theatre, Manchester; and Samarbeta #4 Residency at Islington Mill, Salford.
This will not be the first time Rachel Goodyear has worked with The Lowry, as she co-curated Thermo 03 and Thermo 04 in 2003 and 2004.
Rachel Goodyear follows digital artist Dave Lynch (Wed 14 September – Sun 9 October) in the Projects series at The Lowry.
