Joseph Goddard West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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I am an artist predominately concerned with post war architecture, it's inherent ideology, aesthetics, structural forms and the effects it has upon its inhabitants. I explore these themes in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and print in order to broaden and investigate related ideas.

Joseph Goddard’s latest sculptural project, Heritage, creates an intersection between urbanism, abstraction and expressionism. The work acts as an uprooting of artefacts forged in the former modernist era. Fragments suggestive of monumentality indicate a duality of process and the passing of time, as the hyperactivity of unfiltered consciousness is scrawled on to the surfaces of slow glacial modernist structures. Displaced, relocated into the now and displayed in armatures , the work stimulates questions regarding the effects and functions of post-war relics, provoking an ambivalence of protection, warning, veneration and restraint . “My work is responsive to early memories of encountering big cities; the feeling of stepping into a set, one filled with props and constructs ; testaments to the grand visions of their makers and their unwieldly doctrines. Ever since then the urban-scape has never failed to offer moments and objects of real presence. I see cities as arenas of competing ambitions and ideologies; dialogues exist between structures, materials and gestures, which echo from the past, permeate the present and encroach into the future. There are times and encounters which, although are happenstance, just feel too designed, they radiate aura and emanate the spirit of art. At these times it feels as if the environment’s sole function is to operate as an art object, it instils within me a desire to fuse, sculpt and atomise these forms and their associations at will .” In dealing with the familiar-made-incongruous, Heritage foregrounds notions of legacy, preservation, ruination, functionality and fragility, whilst playing across the rift of modern art practices.

Artwork

City of Nithstang - Construct Series, Digital photgraphy / montage, 2019

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City of Nithstang - Nithing Pole No.1, Mixed Media, 2018

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Ghosts of Nithstang, Photography, 2017

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City of Nithstang, Photographic collage, 2017

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Structure of Collapse, Mixed media sculpture, 2017

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Projects and exhibitions

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Leeds Tidal - Summat 2019

09/03/2019

Activist campaign to bring awareness to local and global socio-political issues

NDC Leeds, Leeds Details

Huddersfield Summer Exhibition 2018

01/08/2018 — 24/08/2018

Packhorse Centre, Huddersfield Details

Stimulus - Art Number 23

01/08/2017 — 05/08/2017

Menier Gallery, London Details

Stimulus - Art Number 23

26/06/2017 — 02/07/2017

International open call based on the theme Stimulus

Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens Details

Antennae - Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes

12/05/2017 — 12/06/2017

International open call for artists making work related to the 'mood of our time'

Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes, London Details

Framing the Crisis

19/04/2017 — 19/05/2017

International open call for artists producing work that explores the themes of the recent migrant crisis in Europe.

System Gallery/Vault Collectiev, Newcastle Details

Royal Scottish Academy of Arts - Architecture Exhibition

01/04/2017 — 09/07/2017

Open call for Architects to exhibit their work in the center of Edinburgh.

Royal Scottish Academy of Arts, Edinburgh Details

Barbican Arts Group Trust - Art Works Open

18/11/2016 — 09/07/2017

An international open call call for artists

Barbican Arts Group Trust, London Details

Lady Beck Open Studio

09/09/2016 — 12/09/2016

A collection of work by Leeds based artists

Lady Beck Gallery, Leeds , Leeds UK Details

Rites and Rituals

13/12/0018 — 17/01/0019

An exhibition to "explore new perspectives on how supernatural powers, part of the mythologies and folklore, of multiple cultures and cosmogonies, can be used today as a tool to examine “human nature” cross-cultural contexts as well as investigating the societal, evolutionary and psychological significance of ritual and rites process and...

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Artcore, Derby Details

Structure of Collapse

31/10/0017 — 07/11/0017

A solo show presenting my sculptural project Structure of Collpase

Arts Depot, London Details
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