Catherine Goodman

Catherine Goodman lives and works in London, UK. Central to her artistic process is the act of drawing from observation, whether from life, objects or works by the great masters. Goodman describes how her preparatory drawings, in charcoal, gouache and pencil, become ‘the armature or the scaffold of every piece of work.’ For over thirty years, she has drawn every single day.

She says, ‘drawings hold the smells and the bones, memories, feelings and the structure of everything I do.’ Her visual language runs across genres, and the influence of literature, cinematography, music and drawing from art and life, enriches her work. Goodman has developed her own subtle mythology, the motifs of which carry through her drawings and paintings, whether of real or imagined characters and landscapes. Although she is best known for portraiture, Goodman’s practice includes expressionistic landscapes and cityscapes, interior scenes of her house and studio, vigorous sketches and experimental collages.

Goodman sees her role as an educator as being integral to her artistic identity and in 2000, she co-established the Royal Drawing School with HM King Charles III, to address the increasing absence of observational drawing in art education. She has a longstanding interest in artists’ development and education, as well as the importance of drawing skills to underpin creative practice, both in fine art disciplines and more broadly in the creative industries. She continues in her role as Founding Artistic Director and Academic Board Member and has been a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order since 2014, for her services to the school.

Goodman studied at London’s Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts and the Royal Academy Schools, at which she won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1987. Her painting of Antony Sutch won First Prize in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2002, following which the Gallery commissioned her painting of Dame Cicely Saunders for its collection. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including Portraits from Life at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014. Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January to May 2018, ahead of her solo exhibition with the gallery in January 2019. Her paintings are held in numerous private and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Royal Collection Trust.

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Catherine Goodman

Biography

Print Biography
Born
London, UK, 1961
Education

Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK, 1979 – 1984
Royal Academy Schools, London, UK, 1984 – 1987

Resides
Lives and works in London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
Waddesdon Manor, 'Catherine Goodman. Do you remember me...', Aylesbury, UK
2022
Marlborough Gallery, 'And everything changed...', London, UK
2019
Marlborough Gallery, 'the light gets in', New York NY
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 'EVE', Bruton, UK
2016
Marlborough Gallery, 'the last house in the world', London, UK
2014
National Portrait Gallery, 'Portraits from Life', London, UK
Colnaghi, 'Drawing from Veronese', London, UK
2012
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Worlds Within', London, UK
2008
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Catherine Goodman', London, UK
1997
Theo Waddington Fine Art, London, UK
1995
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
1992
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
1990
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
1988
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
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Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2015
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
The Royal Collection Trust, 'Last of the Tide: Portraits of D-Day Veterans', London, UK
2007
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2006
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 'Drawing Inspiration', Kendall, UK
2004
Marlborough Fine Art, 'Two London Painters: Catherine Goodman and David Dawson', London, UK
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Awards and Honours

2019
Trustee for The National Gallery, London, UK
2014
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the Royal Drawing School
2008
Artistic Director, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2004 – 2005
National Portrait Gallery commission, portrait of Dame Cicely Saunders, London, UK
2002
BP Portrait Award, First Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2000 – 2007
Director, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
1987
Royal Academy Gold Medal
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Bibliography

Monographs

2022
Tobin, Claudia, 'And everything changed', London: Marlborough Gallery, 2022 (exh. cat.)
2019
'EVE', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, ill. (exh. cat.)
Thurman, Judith, Tobin, Claudia, 'the light gets in', New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2019, ill. (exh. cat.)
2016
Rothschild, Hannah, Tobin, Claudia, Rose, Andrea, 'the last house in the world', London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2016, ill. (exh. cat. online)
2014
Howgate, Sarah, Feaver, William, 'Portraits from Life', London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2014, ill. (exh. cat.)
2012
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, 'Worlds Within', London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
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Publications

2019
Morrill, Rebecca (ed.), 'Great Women Artists', Phaidon Press, 2019, ill.
Bell, Julian, Balchin, Julia, Tobin, Claudia (eds.), 'Ways of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices', London: Thames & Hudson, 2019, ill.
2006
Nairne, Sandy, Howgate, Sarah, 'The Portrait Now', London: National Portrait Gallery, 2006, ill.
2004
Auerbach, Jake, 'Two London Painters', London: Marlborough Fine Art, London, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
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Museum Exhibitions

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Catherine Goodman
Do you remember me...
7 Jun - 29 Oct 2023, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK

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