Catherine Goodman
Catherine Goodman in her studio, London, UK, 2024 © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Damian Griffiths © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
‘Catherine Goodman’ is a monograph examining a new body of abstract paintings by the British artist, offering insight into the development of her distinct visual language
Catherine Goodman studio view, 2024 © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Damian Griffiths
For more than four decades, the London-based artist Catherine Goodman has developed a unique visual language that communicates a powerful response to her lived experience and memory. This monograph charts recent developments in her practice, focusing on a new body of monumental abstract paintings that mark a significant shift in the artist’s visual language, and features texts by Jennifer Higgie and Goodman herself.
Catherine Goodman, Night Mirror, 2023, oil on linen, 176 x 212.8 x 4.2 cm / 69 1/4 x 83 3/4 x 1 5/8 in, © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Damian Griffiths
Known for expressionistic landscape paintings, portraits, and drawings, Goodman’s work takes on a vertiginous immersive power and spiritual depth as she moves into abstraction. Featuring new paintings from her upcoming solo exhibition ‘Silent Music’ at Hauser & Wirth New York in January, as well as works recently on view in
Catherine Goodman, Sasha, 2023, oil on linen, 200.5 x 340.5 x 3 cm / 78 7/8 x 134 x 1 1/8 in © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Damian Griffiths
the artists solo exhibition ‘New Work’ at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, this beautifully produced publication features a generous selection of plates and details that capture the animated surfaces, energetic brushstrokes and distinct vitality of Goodman’s extraordinary work.
Catherine Goodman, The Only Life You Can Save, 2024, oil on linen 180 x 210 x 3.8 cm / 70 7/8 x 82 5/8 x 1 1/2 in© Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Eva Herzog
In the illuminating essay ‘A Sense of Life,’ Jennifer Higgie—former editor of ‘frieze’ magazine and author of ‘The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World’—explores this major shift in Goodman’s work in relation to art history, cinema and literature. Examining the influence of key figures from Sonia Delaunay and Helen Frankenthaler to Andrei Tarkovsky and David Bowie, Higgie offers an insight into the evolution of Goodman’s visual language and her work as ‘a rare space for contemplation’ amid our ‘frantic, hyperconnected, and screen-dominated lives.’
Little Big Head Land, 2024, oil on linen, 200 x 210 x 3.8 cm / 78 3/4 x 82 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. © Catherine Goodman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Eva Herzog
A second text, ‘On Drawing,’ takes the form of a transcript of a conversation with Goodman in which she reflects on the fascinating connection between drawing and painting in her deeply intuitive mode of artmaking. The act of drawing—a daily practice she has maintained for decades—is central to Goodman’s artistic process, with the relationship of eye to hand to paper having opened up new dimensions for the artist.
About Catherine Goodman
For more than four decades, Catherine Goodman CBE has developed a unique visual language that\ communicates a powerful visionary response to her lived experience and memory. Integral to Goodman’s artistic identity is her role as an educator. In 2000, she co-established the Royal Drawing School with HRH King Charles III to address the increasing absence of drawing in art education in the UK. Since 2019, Goodman has served as the Artist Trustee at The National Gallery, London. In 2024, she was awarded Commander of the British Empire for her services to art, UK. Her paintings are held in significant museums and foundations internationally.
About Jennifer Higgie
Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her titles include ‘The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World’ (2022) and ‘The Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion and Resilience: 500 Years\ of Women’s Self-Portraits’ ( 2021). Higgie was frieze magazine reviews editor from 1998-2003; co-editor until 2017; frieze editorial director from 2017-19 and editor-at-large until 2021. Jennifer is the inaugural editor of the National Gallery of Australia's new publication ‘The Annual’ and the host of the NGA’s new podcast Artists’s Artists. Jennifer has a BA Fine Art (Painting) from the Canberra School of Art, and a MA (Fine Art, Painting) from Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne; her paintings are in various public and private collections in Australia. She travelled to London on a Murdoch Fellowship in 1995 and stayed.
Catherine Goodman
Texts by
Jennifer Higgie & Catherine Goodman
English
Hardcover
25 × 28.5 cm, 160 pages
ISBN: 978-3-907493-09-0
£45.00 / $50.00 / €48.00 / CHF 48
The book is to be released globally on 17 April 2025 and will be available at Hauser & Wirth galleries from 30 January.
For more information about this title and others with Hauser & Wirth Publishing, please visit their site here. Please visit the Hauser & Wirth Gallery site for information about upcoming exhibitions. Also, follow the gallery on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube. The magazine did a showcase on the exhibition ‘Catherine Goodman. Silent Music’ which is on view at Hauser & Wirth New York, which can be found here.
