University for the Creative Arts 2006/2007
Paul Goodrick
Paul lives in Kent and works as an artist both locally and
internationally. He originally graduated from the Kent Institute of Art
and Design with a First class Honours Degree in Fine Art and has been
involved in countless exhibitions both locally and abroad. Recent
exhibitions include “SeaArt” at the Iota Gallery (August 2006) and
'Flock' at the Riverside Country Park in Gillingham (2005) as well as
'Photoworks' Sante Fe in Argentina (2004) and 'Field of Vision' at The
Lab Gallery in New York (2004).
“My work mainly focuses on nature and
natural materials, and I am particularly interested in relationships and
tensions between the natural and urban environments. I enjoy involving
other people in the creation of my work. As an
environmental artist with an interest in the relationship between
natural and urban environments, my work at the college will involve the
process of combining natural and made materials. The outcome will be
sculptures or installation work. The facilities I plan to use will be
wide ranging – stone carving, wood working and metal working, as well as
other sculptural work using a variety of media. This may link to off
site work or into ongoing projects and commissions, and any students
interested in this aspect are welcomed to participate.
I am also in the
process of writing a book on environmental art, so my work at the
college may well feed this as well. The end results of the work I will
be doing will be in the context of this process of combining, changing
and enhancing materials and their metaphoric values. It will also be
based on research about the materials themselves and to this end I will
be using the library facilities and the internet. I will use digital
technologies to creative a narrative of the whole project in the form of
web site pages. Although my work generally looks at nature or uses
natural materials, it is often the case that the object develops its own
identity and values which transcend any originally intended notions or
ideas. Process and positioning helps to make this happen too. Many of my
projects involve other people, often all making the same object, and
these objects are brought together as a single installation. It will be
interesting to see what happens by working in an art college environment
as a professional artist.
