Ann Goddard
My practice explores ideas and concepts through materials and process. Coming from a background in embroidery and textiles, my work developed to include media and techniques from previously separate genres. I now choose the materials necessary to tell the story I want to tell. Textile elements are one ingredient that contribute to the narrative.
Most of my work is three dimensional, taking the form of mixed media constructions, assemblages and small installations comprising multiple units. My preferred method of working is construction; building up forms by assembling separately prepared units. Felted fibres, fabric and stitch are frequently juxtaposed with concrete, wood, metal or natural materials. Rather than direct representation, I aim to communicate ideas by using materials and processes for their association to the idea or concept.
My current body of work reflects my concern for the environment, climate change and the impact of human activity on nature. I hope my work will raise awareness of the threat to biodiversity and the small, overlooked life forms that are in danger of extinction due to the destruction of their habitats. The pieces allude to the vulnerability and fragility of nature. A consequence of this work has been the development of small format artworks that explore the possibilities of concentrating ideas into a miniature size.
Qualifications and training
2003 - MA Fine Art, University of Liverpool
2001 - Cert. Advanced Studies in Art, University of Liverpool
1999 - BTEC HNC Stitched and Constructed Textiles, West Cheshire College, Chester
1998 - City and Guilds Creative Studies - Embroidery Parts 1 and 2, West Cheshire College, Chester
1986 - BEd Hons, University of Liverpool
Commission
2023 - Commissioned by Saatchi Art to make 3 artworks for 1 Hotel Mayfair, London
Publication
2022 - Mixed Media Textile Art in Three Dimensions, author Ann Goddard, published by Batsford Books
Interview
2022 - Fibre Arts Take Two Friday Feature Artist interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l-VM45fIA
Competitions, prizes and awards
2021 - The John Doubleday Art Award
2021 - Winner Award, The Cambridge Invitational Art Contest 2021
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile Award
2010 - Grand Prize, Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Exhibition, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 - Honourable Mention, International Biennial Miniature Art, Salle Augustin-Chenier, Ville-Marie, Canada
2000 - Main Award winner, Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles
1999 - Embroiderers' Guild Graduate Showcase, The Knitting & Stitching Shows
1998 - Highly Commended, City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Part 2
1996 - City and Guilds Medal of Excellence for Creative Studies Embroidery Part 1
Group exhibitions
2025 - 2026 International Art Textile Biennale 25, touring to 6 galleries in Australia
2024 - ‘Making as Learning’, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Yorkshire; touring to Knitting & Stitching Show, Harrogate
2024 - Fresh Air Sculpture, Quenington Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2024 - Tailored touring to The Hub, Sleaford
2024 - Fiber in 3D, Fiber Art Now magazine, USA
2023 - Embroiderers Guild Retrospective Exhibition, Knitting & Stitching Show, London, Harrogate
2023 - Tailored, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Yorkshire
2023 - Fiber Reimagined, Fiber Art Now magazine, USA
2023 - 2024 International Art Textile Biennale 2023, Australia, touring exhibition to 8 galleries
2022 - Essence, 62 Group touring exhibition, Knitting & Stitching Show London; Harrogate
2022 - Conversations, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington
2021 - The Cambridge Invitational Art Contest 2021, Castle Fine Art Cambridge and Online
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile Award touring exhibition, Birmingham, London, Harrogate
2019 - VIII WTA International Biennial Contemporary Textile Art - Madrid Spain
2019 - CTRL/Shift, NCCD, Sleaford touring to 20/21 Visual Arts Centre , Lincolnshire
2018 - CTRL/Shift, MAC, Birmingham
2018 - International Miniature Art Biennial (IMAB), Ville Marie, Canada
2017 - Arte&Arte Miniartextil touring exhibition; Como, Italy; Montrouge, Paris, France; Gif sur Yvette, France
2017 - Fresh Air 2017, Quenington Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2017 - Making Space, Spring Knitting & Stitching Show touring exhibition, Olympia, London; Highland Centre, Edinburgh
2017 - Excellence in Fibers online exhibition, Fiber Arts Now magazine, USA
2016 - Making Space, Macclesfield Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire
2015 - Arte&Arte Miniartextil touring exhibition, Como, Italy; Montrouge, Paris, France; Caudry, France; Venice, Italy
2015 - Power of Ten, SIT Select, Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2015 - 62 Group Now, Upfront Gallery, Unthank, Cumbria
2014 - Ebb & Flow, Fishing Heritage Centre / Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
2013 - British Textile Art, Koyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks
2013 - Pink Wood, Bruton, Somerset
2013 - 6th International Biennial Exhibition on Mini Textile, Kherson Local Lore Museum, Kherson, Ukraine
2013 - Small Talk, Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths University of London, London
2013 - Miniature Magnified, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott
2013 - A Personal Perspective, Craft In The Bay, Cardiff
2013 - Cabinets of Curiosities and Room of Wonder, The Borough Museum & Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
2012 - 62@50, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh
2012 - 62@50, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 - Interventions, Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester
2012 - Package Tour, Alexandra Palace, London
2012 - Package Tour, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate
2012 - Package Tour, RDS, Dublin
2011 - 7 Strands, Gate Gallery and Grimsby Minster, Grimsby
2011 - 7th International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 - Sofia International Paper Art Biennial
2011 - National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 - VI WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art - Air, The Ramon Alva de la Canal Gallery of the University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico
2010 - Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Exhibition 2010, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 - Bending More Lines, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2010 - Cartasia Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cavallerizza, Lucca, Italy
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art (Finalists), House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art (Finalists), Museum of Contemporary Art Latino-American de la Plata (MACLA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 - International Biennial Miniature Art 2010, Salle Augustin-Chenier, Ville-Marie, Quebec, Canada
2010 - Made To Fit, The Willis Museum, Basingstoke
2010 - The 62 Group of Textile Artists, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands
2009 - Bending the Line, The Hub National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford
2009 - Bowland - An Inspirational Landscape, The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
2009 - Moving On, Upfront Gallery, Nr Penrith, Cumbria
2008 - Considered Matter, Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley
2008 - Designer Crafts 2008, Mall Galleries, London
2008 - Healing, Norton Priory Museum & Gardens, Runcorn
2008 - Size Matters, Rochester Art Gallery & Craft Case, Rochester
2008 - Stuff: contemporary textiles by the 62 Group, Catmose Gallery, Oakham
2008 - The Foyle Trust Award Winners Exhibition, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch
2007 - 62 Group, Textile Gallery, Knitting & Stitching Show, Birmingham, London, Dublin, Harrogate
2007 - Abstract Construction, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott, Derbyshire
2007 - Square Route, Blackburne House, Liverpool
2007 - Stitched Up, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, N.Yorks
2007 - You Are Here, The Kitchen Gallery, Runcorn
2006 - Art of the Stitch, RWA, Bristol; The Hub, Sleaford, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead
2006 - E Squared, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway
2006 - E Squared, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2006 - Expressions, The Brindley, Runcorn
2006 - Tracing Threads, New work by the 62 Group of Textile Artists, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove, East Sussex
2005 - In the Square, Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead
2005 - Showcase, The Maria Louisa Gallery, Liverpool
2004 - Consequences, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2004 - The Hard with the Soft, Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead
2003 - MA Fine Art exhibition, University College Chester
2002 - A Time and a Place, Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2001 - Affordable Art Fair, London (with Beatrice Royal Gallery)
2001 - Art of the Stitch, Mall Galleries, London; Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
2001 - Madeira Show, Harrogate
2001 - Open Art Exhibition, Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2000 - Affordable Art Fair, London (with Beatrice Royal Gallery)
2000 - Connections: Africa's West Coast, The Beetroot Tree, Draycott, Derbyshire
2000 - New Horizons, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch
2000 - Progressions, Yale Memorial Art Gallery, Wrexham
2000 - Riches of Stitches, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
2000 - Spring Showcase, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery, Hampshire
1999 - Graduate Showcase, Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London; RDS, Dublin; Main Halls, Harrogate
1999 - Open Exhibition, Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
1997 - City & Guilds Showcase, National Needlecraft Show, Olympia, London
Talk
2021 - Skill of Constructed, Sculptural Textiles: Constructed and Sculptural Textiles within a Mixed Media Practice; Fashion and Textile Museum, London, in collaboration with the 62 Group of Textiles
Web articles:
2022 - #Five2Watch: 'Collaboration', www.axisweb.org
2013 - Artist of the Month (August), www.axisweb.org
2013 - Featured Artist (April), www.textileartist.org
2012 - Artist Interview, www.textileartist.org
Books and Journals:
2015 - Selected Journal issue 2: Spring/Summer 2015
2012 - Radical Thread, The 62 Group 1962-2012; ed. Lesley Millar; pub.Direct Design Books
2011 - La Palabra y el Hombre, issue 18, December 2011, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Exhibition Catalogues:
2019 - Vlieseline Fine Art Textile catalogue
2019 - CTRL/Shift, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2019 - VIII Bienal De Art Textil Contemporaneo, WTA, Madrid 2019
2014 - Ebb & Flow, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2013 - A Personal Perspective on Landscape, The Makers Guild in Wales
2011 - Sofia Paper Art Fest, Amateras Foundation, Bulgaria
2011 - VI Bienal Arte Textil Contemporaneo, Aire, WTA, Mexico
2011 - Vanish / Survive, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 - Amateras Mini Paper Art, Bulgaria
2009 - Bending the Line, 62 Group of Textile Artists
2008 - Designer Crafts at the Mall, Society of Designer Craftsmen
2007 - Knitting & Stitching Show (CD), 62 Group of Textile Artists
2006 - Tracing Threads (CD), 62 Group of Textile Artists
2006 - Art of the Stitch, Embroiderer’s Guild
2000 - New Horizons, Charles Henry Foyle Trust
1998 - City & Guilds Calendar (February)
Professional Memberships
The 62 Group of Textile Artists
WTA (World Textile Art)
