Catherine Anne Goodman (born 1961) is an English artist, and co-founder with

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of the

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Biography

Goodman was born in

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in 1961. Goodman is a great-granddaughter of

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. She studied at

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, London from 1979 to 1984, followed by the

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, London from 1984 to 1987. She won the

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Gold Medal in 1987, and the

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at the

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in 2002. Since 2023, Goodman has been represented by Hauser & Wirth having previously been represented by Marlborough Fine Art from 2004. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including 'Do you remember me...' at

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in 2023, 'Portraits from Life' at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014 and the last house in the world at

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London in 2016; in 2019 she exhibited at Hauser & Wirth Somerset following five months as Artist in Residence, and at Marlborough Gallery New York with her solo exhibition, 'the light gets in'. In 2021 Goodman exhibited her latest work 'And everything changed' at Marlborough Fine Art . In 2019, the Prime Minister appointed Goodman the artist trustee of the

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Goodman’s paintings are held in numerous private and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, which acquired her portrait of film director Stephen Frears for its 20th Century Collection; the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Royal Collection Trust. 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. Goodman is well known on the London art scene as the Artistic Director of Royal Drawing School an independent charitable art school in London's east end. She was appointed

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(LVO) in the

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for services to the

and

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(CBE) in the

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for services to art.

Style and influences

Goodman's paintings are figurative, in the School of London tradition, showing a strong emphasis on drawing and the physicality of paint. Her subject matter includes portraits, but also interior scenes and city landscapes. Writing on Goodman's winning entry for the 2002 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, a portrait of Father Antony Sutch, Headmaster of Downside School in Somerset, Elizabeth Grice described it as having, 'the quiet authority of an icon'. The portrait took two years to paint, and is typical of Goodman's methodical way of working. In her own words she is a fast painter, she spends 'a very long time on my pictures and I destroy a fair amount.' As well as working directly from life Goodman will work from photographs, but she is an artist who places a great deal of emphasis on drawing skills. She has described this as an essential part of art, as the means for "recreating from life a three-dimensional reality on a two-dimension space.".

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External links

Hauser & Wirth Artists' Page'Do you remember me...' at Waddesdon Manor
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