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White Shadows
White Shadows is based on Anna Goodchild's reaction to her 2024 monoprint Cruciform Wetness. It combines different voices, imagined and textual, varying in time and place. Despite the four-thousand-year gap between the first and latest utterances, the message remains the same - and it's the interpretation that differs. Through photography, monoprints, poetry and braided voices, this work explores identity delving into the concept of being a seaweed. Anna has lived in Torbay, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi and much of what she expresses reflects an accumulation of cultural encounters and exchanges. Since retiring from teaching modern languages, Anna has thrown herself into finding a different language to express herself. Anna loves research which is fuelled by an unbounded curiosity. She holds an MA in the History of 20thC. Art, Architecture and Design (2004 Falmouth), and has studied Photography (2020 UCA), History and French (1971 SA), Italian literature and language, and English literature (1975 SA); Graduate Translation Diploma (1985 SA). Chance dictates a lot of what Anna Goodchild does – in art and life. What inspires her depends on what she finds; for her art, it’s on the beach where she likes to unravel the knots of seaweed and detritus that the tide leaves behind. She is currently reading for an MA in Fine Art.
📅 14 May - 1 June 2024
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📍 Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery
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Anna Goodchild
Chance dictates a lot of what she does – in art and life. What inspires her depends on what she finds: for her art, it’s on the beach where she likes to unravel the knots of seaweed and detritus that the tide leaves behind because often there are algae she has not seen or worked with. And in life? Well, art is life. She is inspired by Walt Whitman's 'Only by listening to the voice of the soul — a voice by definition nonconformist, rising above the din of convention and expectation ... do we become fully and happily ourselves. To be aware of ourselves is to hear that voice. To be content in ourselves is to listen to it.' Anna's primary focus is on seaweeds and their unique properties, habitats, and interrelationships. Her Sony camera, an electron microscope, cyanotype or her phone microscope, and printmaking fashion what she presents, and that is also influenced by Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, and Donna Haraway’s ideas on simpoiesis. Foucault opens up for her the idea of worlds within worlds, whereas Haraway helps her explore how she makes with or becomes with those worlds and their components.
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Christianity, Seaweeds and Identity
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White Shadows is based on Anna Goodchild's reaction to her 2024 monoprint Cruciform Wetness. It combines different voices, imagined and textual, varying in time and place. Despite the four-thousand-year gap between the first and latest utterances, the message remains the same - and it's the interpretation that differs. Through photography, monoprints, poetry and braided voices, this work explores identity delving into the concept of being a seaweed.
Anna has lived in Torbay, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi and much of what she expresses reflects an accumulation of cultural encounters and exchanges. Since retiring from teaching modern languages, Anna has thrown herself into finding a different language to express herself. Anna loves research which is fuelled by an unbounded curiosity. She holds an MA in the History of 20thC. Art, Architecture and Design (2004 Falmouth), and has studied Photography (2020 UCA), History and French (1971 SA), Italian literature and language, and English literature (1975 SA); Graduate Translation Diploma (1985 SA).
Chance dictates a lot of what Anna Goodchild does – in art and life. What inspires her depends on what she finds; for her art, it’s on the beach where she likes to unravel the knots of seaweed and detritus that the tide leaves behind. She is currently reading for an MA in Fine Art.
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