BIOG
I work in a range of media including video, performance, drawing, learning and social arts practice.
My recent practice has explored the effect of digital technology on our lived experience. My work feeds off our political, social and technological evolution (or regression) through collaging historical narratives, making comments on the future, all the while considered within the modes of science fiction and horror. I was recently selected for Survey – a major exhibition by Jerwood Space presenting works by 15 early-career UK artists in 2018/19.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Survey, Jerwood Space, London; Bluecoat, Liverpool and BALTIC – Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff (2017); Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu / Chongqing, China (2016); Testspace, Spike Island, Bristol (2016); Europa, Transition Gallery, London (2016); and Uprisings, MOSTYN, Llandudno (2015). Recent residencies include URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); Standpoint Futures, Standpoint Gallery, London (2015). Over the last four years, I have exhibited at Whitechapel, Baltic, Nottingham Contemporary, Tate Modern and Liverpool Biennial and has worked with HLF, ACW, BBC, Cadw & The Space.
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email: tom(at)thomas-goddard.com
instagram: thomas_goddard
born/Cardiff, 1980. lives/Cardiff
EDUCATION
2007-08 PGCE Art & Design UWIC, University of Wales, Cardiff
2005-06 Digital Fine Art, Tower Hamlets College, London
2001-04 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
Selected Film Screenings
2019 The word of mouse (grok your cornea gumbo), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
BF artist Film Festival, Graft, Lancaster & Set, London
2016 Chew Chew, Buenos Caos (Video Club), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chew Chew, Selected VI, Touring Film Programme nominated by Jarman Award shortlisted artists – Whitechapel Gallery, London; Watershed, Bristol; Nottingham Contemporary and others
2015 Chew Chew, Film Commission, Plymouth Art Weekender
2014 Bulletin, Film Commission for BBC/Outcasting Residency, supported by The Space and ACE
The Farthest Point of Navigation…, Fourth Wall Festival
2012 Potential Endings, Being Human Festival, University of London
Mobile Punch and Judy Man, Fourth Wall Film Festival, Cardiff Contemporary
Potential Endings, Facing Extinction, UCA Farnham
Selected Group Exhibitions/Performances
2019 Survey, g39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool; BALTIC-centre for contemporary art, Gateshead; bringing together new work by 15 early-career artists to explore contemporary artistic practice across the UK today
The Flip Flop of God, BALTIC-centre for contemporary art, Gateshead
The Last Blockbuster, g39, Cardiff
The Battle of Ninian Park, Swansea a-n Assembly, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Please Bow Your Heads, Dundee a-n Assembly
2018 Survey, Jerwood Space, London bringing together new work by 15 early-career artists to explore contemporary artistic practice across the UK today
2017 Operation Skye, Test Space International / Spike Island
Idle Hands are the Devil’s workshop, Chapter, Cardiff
2016 Europa, Transition Gallery, London
Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China
Regeneration-Expansion Art Festival, Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2015 An Interview with…, Experimentica Festival, Chapter, Cardiff
Red Files, Schwartz Gallery, London
Hungry?, Axis Web, Wakefield
Austerity Disco, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2014 TomTom, Model Gallery, Liverpool
From Here and There, Colorado, Denver, USA
2013 Trading Post, Library of Birmingham, Curated by Eastside Projects
Fantasista, Cello Factory, London Curated by Bearspace
2012 Undercurrents, The Tanks, Tate Modern
One Night Stand, Trade Gallery, Nottingham
Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Awards
2018 a-n project bursary – connecting Birmingham, Cardiff & Glasgow artist scenes with Antonio Roberts and Joanna Helfer
2017 Wales Arts International / British Council travel funding to participate in URRA residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Wales Arts International / British Council travel funding to participate at Performance Festivals in Chongquing & China
2015 Creative Wales Award, ACW (Mentors: Bedwyr Williams and S Mark Gubb)
2012 Arts Council Grant funding: Teggie – Beast of Bala
2010 Arts Council Grant funding: Cerbyd
2011 Marsh Award for Excellence in Gallery Education, Engage
2009 Travel Award for Venice Biennale, Wales Arts International
Public Lectures/ Artist Talks
2020 Artists make change, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
2019 In conversation at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Visiting Lecturer, University of Worcester
Visiting Lecturer, University of South Wales
2017 Visiting Lecturer, University of Northampton
Artist Talk, g39, Cardiff
2016 Speaker, Artes Mundi Learning Conference
Lecture on Museums & Artists working together, IdeasTap, Kent
Selected 6 – In conversation, Watershed, Bristol
Artist Talk, PAC Home, Plymouth Art Centre
Visiting Lecturer, Glyndwr, Wrexham University
2014 Visiting Lecturer, Bath Spa & University of Wales Speaker, BAFM Conference
Speaker, Industry Insights to Creative Arts Practice, Bath Spa University
Speaker, Engage Summer School, Padua, Italy