Rachel Goodyear
(b. 1978, Lancashire, UK) lives and works in Manchester. She studied at Leeds Metropolitan University and Hopwood Hall. Using familiar yet unsettling imagery, her delicate drawings and films explore dream states, folklore, and the fragile line between reality and imagination. Her work has been shown at The Drawing Center, NY; The Whitworth, Manchester; and Tate Liverpool, and is held in collections including the V&A, London and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Rachel Goodyear
Magpie Tangle, 2021
pencil and watercolour on paper, framed
125 x 90 cm, 49 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
(PH10389)
Rachel Goodyear
Meeting Point, 2022
pencil and watercolour on paper, framed
125 x 90 cm, 49 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
(PH10391)
Recent solo exhibitions include Stirrings, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool / Salford Museum & Art Gallery (2022–23); Leeds Arts University (2021); and Catching Sight, The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2017).
Recent group exhibitions include A Line Around An Idea, The Glucksman, Cork (2023); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth, Manchester (2022); The Way We Are 2.0, Weserburg Museum, Bremen (2020–21); and A Trick of the Light, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2019).
Rachel Goodyear
Collection, 2020
pencil and watercolour on paper, framed
42 x 30 cm, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
(PH0454)
Rachel Goodyear
Tied Branches, 2024
pencil and watercolour on paper, framed
42 x 30 cm, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
(PH12119)