Rachel Goodyear / We will cancel your membership and you will owe us nothing
Preview
6th May 6pm -8pm
Exhibition Continues
7th May - 5th June 2005
Exhibition Opening Times
Thurs - Sun 12pm - 5pm
Two Hounds of Hell cross each other’s paths. One drops the severed head from its mouth and they are caught going round in a tight circle sniffing each other’s arses.
Within her drawings, using various styles, Rachel Goodyear creates gently disturbing images of weird beauty: a birdhouse filled to overflowing with a trapped bird, an impossible rope bridge across a deadly ravine. Balanced between playful curiosity and sadistic torment, this body of work offers a mass of ambiguous truths colliding with the blatantly invented.
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Rachel Goodyear, we will cancel your membership and you will owe us nothing
2004 2004, wooden birdhouse, steel pins, cotton thread 31 x 23 x 17 cms
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Rachel Goodyear, we will cancel.....installation image
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Rachel Goodyear, one bird holds another down
one bird holds another down 2005 mixed media private collection
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Rachel Goodyear, we will cancel....installation image 2
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Rachel Goodyear, experience is not essential
2005, pencil, on paper 42 x 60 cms
The drawings are displayed unmounted on the wall, with no apparent elevation of status from conception to display, just as in the content the mundane and the spectacular exist on the same plane. The clustered drawings allow disjointed narratives to be strung together, tying the blessed and the cursed in uneasy union.
3D work is frequently constructed by delicately adding to existing objects, in pieces which continue the subtle menace of the drawings.
Rachel Goodyear (b.1978) is based in Manchester. She has recently exhibited at Mostyn Open 2005, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; Post notes, ICA, London and Midway Contemporary Arts, Minneapolis.
The International 3 is supported by Arts Council England
For further information and images contact Paulette Terry Brien on 0161 237 3336 or 07981 389 591 email ptb@international3.com