ART_ARCHITECTURE

R I C H A R D G O O D W I N
Art Architecture
Principal
Richard Goodwin B.Sc.(Arch.),B. Arch.,M. Arch. RAIA
Professor University of N S W C O F A

Richard Goodwin, Sydney based Artist/Architect, has been an exhibiting artist since 1976, during which time he has had 35 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both here and overseas. His work is represented in many public collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, and the national gallery of Victoria. Most of his major public commissions are in Sydney including "Mobius Sea" outside the Art Gallery of NSW, "The Corvette Memorial" at Garden Island in Sydney Harbour and "Exoskeleton Tower" within Galeries Victoria Sydney. Recently he was awarded "The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award" and in 2003 "The Sculpture by the Sea Prize" and the "Blacket Award" for architecture 2004. Overseas exhibitions include Inside, a satellite exhibition of Documenta 10, Kassel 1997, Distance, Shizuoka Prefectory Museum, Tokyo, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan 1995 and 3rd Drawing Triennial Nurenburg 1985. He currently holds the position of professor at the College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales. Trained and registered as an architect, Goodwin operates within the hybrid field of art/architecture producing many public art projects.

More recently, his public art theories and practice have created what he calls "Parasite" projects that attach to the skin of architecture. This pushes site specific art from the spaces between buildings to engage architecture as site. Hence, Goodwin's practice spans three scales. The gallery operates as a laboratory for structures, which explore the minimum architectures of the body, titled "Exoskeleton". These ideas reform at the scale of architecture and public art to form "Parasite" structures which attach to a variety of sites including buildings. At the scale of urban infrastructure, the devices of exoskeleton and parasite form attachments to the structures of public space including roads and major public spaces. The public art/architecture projects are aimed to increase the permeability surrounding architecture to public space. This body of work is titled "Porosity". In 2003 Goodwin was awarded a Federal Government Australian Research Discovery Grant to further explore a new mapping of public space in relation to the ideas of Porosity.

Goodwin's work uses public art as a way of interrogating architecture and public space.