Independent curator
Installation shot of Sarah Staton's solo show at the Graves Art Gallery (2004) curated by Anne Goodchild
Anne Goodchild was curator of the Graves Art Gallery Sheffield until 1997 and latterly Senior Curator of Visual Art for Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust. She is now working independently based in Sheffield. Her practice and experience have lain in the arenas of collection and exhibition curating, and from a position of expertise and professional interest she has addressed modernist and contemporary issues through these. Working with nationally recognised collections, she has curated exhibitions and interventions which complement and extend a knowledge and understanding of modern and contemporary visual art as well as independent ventures. From earlier exhibitions such as The Absent Presence (1991) which built upon icon images of Modern British art and focused on contemporary responses to the theme, to recent initiatives she has always been aware of the powerful resonances between content and context. In recent years she has worked with artist Sarah Staton on a site specific exhibition for the GravesArtGallery (2004) and, also for the Graves, with international curator David Thorp on The Faltering Flame. This show was a contemporary response to the Tate Sculpture exhibition which she curated with Tate for the Millennium Galleries. In 2006 and 2007 she brought Bill Viola’s work to Sheffield for the first time, showing a plasma screen intervention at the Graves and, at Sheffield Cathedral, The Messenger. She has sat on a board for the Arts Council for individual artists’ awards, has worked closely with the large community of artists in Sheffield for many years, and is on the board for S1 Studios in the city. She was a nominator for the Northern Art Prize 2007.