Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Steph Goodger Artist ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://stephgoodger.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Brewers Towner International at Towner Eastbourne](https://stephgoodger.com/brewers-towner-international-at-towner-eastbourne/) - This biennial exhibition of contemporary visual arts features a range of artists, local, national and international, coming together to share work that addresses the theme of SANCTUARY. - [John Moores Painting Prize 2020 Prize Winner!](https://stephgoodger.com/john-moores-painting-prize/) - Virtual Tour - [Rise Art Interview January 2023](https://stephgoodger.com/rise-art-interview-january-2023/) - Interview with Steph Goodger: Evoking Spaces, Their Histories and the Traces of Events. Rise Art ## Pages - [Home](https://stephgoodger.com/) - Steph Goodger is a contemporary British artist. She was a prize winner in the prestigious painting competition, the John Moores Painting Prize, in 2020. - [Badges 4 Gaza](https://stephgoodger.com/badges-4-gaza/) - Four Badges - Four familiesGazan children are drawing to support their families. We are a small, non-profit organisation, based in France, working with four families living in Gaza. We have known each family for one to two years and stay in contact weekly.One child from each family created a drawing, which we turned into merchandise - [Battle for the Skies](https://stephgoodger.com/battle-for-the-skies/) - “I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise...” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake Battle for the Skies is a spin-off series from The Doom, which was inspired by the Chaldon Church Doom painting, possibly the oldest of its kind in the UK, dating - [The War Room](https://stephgoodger.com/the-war-room/) - The War Room series is inspired by the war room from the film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1964. The idea with this series is to paint war rooms over existing paintings of interior spaces, mostly migrant boat or slave ship interiors. - [The Doom](https://stephgoodger.com/the-doom/) - “I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise...” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake 'Art's Ugly Right?' Curated by Stephen Lee. Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 2025 “..Visualisations of Dante's ever decreasing spirals of descent into the subterranean architecture of hell, coupled with recent paintings of - [About](https://stephgoodger.com/about/) - Biography Steph Goodger lives and works between Bordeaux, France and the UK. She exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Goodger was a prize winner in the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize (2020), having previously exhibited in JMPP (2016 and 2004). Recent exhibitions include ‘Art’s Ugly Right?’ at Danielle Arnaud, London; A Day in the - [Lusitania at De Queeste Art, Belgium 2023](https://stephgoodger.com/exhibition-2023-test-2/) - 23 April to 21 May 2023 A solo exhibition at De Queeste Art, Belgium, of the complete series of the Lusitania series (oil on canvas, each 45x50cm) 2021-23. Works inspired by the First Class cabin interiors of the RMS Lusitania. De Queeste ArtTrappistenweg 548978 | Abele/Watou link to De Queeste Art website - [The Valley](https://stephgoodger.com/the-valley/) - Oils The Valley Watercolours ‘‘ .. the most convincing character of reality is the unreal quality of the scene … It is like a battle in a dream, fought out amongst green hills and flowering hedges..." Passchendaele, 1917 Paul Nash Nash’s description of this dream-like quality of the battlefield, of the immersive, unreal feeling of the - [Carried on the Wind at School Gallery, Folkestone, 2023](https://stephgoodger.com/exhibition-2023-test-4/) - Carried on the Wind at School Gallery, Folkestone, 13 July to 8 October 2023 Carried on the Wind, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and collages from the Pearls and The Crossing series. The Crossing series focuses on a meeting place, created as a railway track and a river, intersect and the railway track crosses over. - [Towner Eastbourne 2022-23](https://stephgoodger.com/exhibition-2023-test/) - 15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023 Brewers Towner International, a biennial exhibition of contemporary visual arts, returns to Towner Eastbourne, featuring a range of artists, local, national and international, coming together to share work that addresses the theme of SANCTUARY. The exhibition has been curated by Noelle Collins, Exhibitions & Offsite Curator, Towner Eastbourne. Following - [News](https://stephgoodger.com/links/) - Interviews and Conferences: Pull Back the Curtain Projects (Youtube): In the studio with Steph Goodger (Interview, May 22) John Moores Painting Prize 2020 (Virtual exhibition tour) Zoom Conference: Phantasmagoria, Malleable Space and the Dark Corners (2020) Histoire(s) de peinture (Interview) Le Pôle Culturel de Bois Fleuri, Lormont (2020) « BEEP » Wales International Contemporary Painting - [The John Moores Painting Prize, 2020, 2016 and 2004](https://stephgoodger.com/the-john-moores-painting-prize/) - 2020 2016 2004 - [The Crossing](https://stephgoodger.com/the-crossing/) - Oils The Crossing series focuses on a meeting place, created as a railway track and a river, intersect and the railway track crosses over. Both of these elements were present in the Pearls paintings and collages and The Valley. These paintings continue to offer a window into the landscape of conflict. There is a feeling of the - [Carried on The Wind at Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, 2023](https://stephgoodger.com/exhibition-2023-test-3/) - Carried on the Wind, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, March-April 2023 Carried on the Wind, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and collages from the Pearls and The Crossing series. The Crossing series focuses on a meeting place, created as a railway track and a river, intersect and the railway track crosses over. Both of these - [Exhibitions 2020/2021](https://stephgoodger.com/exhibitions-2020-2021/) - [The Dream House Series](https://stephgoodger.com/the-dream-house/) - Oil Paintings A History Painting Arcades are houses or passages having no outside – like the dream.Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project. The photographic record of abandoned interiors, provided by aid workers on NGO rescue ships, from organisations such as SOS Mediterranean, was the starting point for both series of paintings. The paintings in The Dream - [Pearls](https://stephgoodger.com/pearls/) - Collages Oval Paintings Ariel's Song. Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes;Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Refrain. Ding-dong.Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell. From Shakespeare’s, The Tempest, Act I, Scene - [The Commune](https://stephgoodger.com/the-commune/) - Barricades Les Non-réclamés Peepshow Theatre Articles of War 'Revolution is a drama perhaps more than a history, and its pathos is a condition as imperious as its authenticity.'Auguste Blanqui 1871 ‘... And this is what separates Goodger’s paintings from the Commune photographs. For where the photographs hold on to their subjects, isolating them as individuals - [Lusitania](https://stephgoodger.com/lusitania/) - Oils Watercolours ‘Let two mirrors reflect each other; then Satan plays his favourite trick and opens here in his way, (as his partner does in lovers’ gazes) the perspective on infinity…’ Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Mirrors The Lusitania series of watercolours and small oil paintings was inspired by some eerie photographs of the First-Class - [The Motherland](https://stephgoodger.com/the-motherland/) - Oil Paintings Watercolours “We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.” Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space The Motherland series concerns the images of my childhood and the history of the Kent countryside. All along the banks of the River - [Inferno](https://stephgoodger.com/inferno/) - Small Infernos - [Hulks](https://stephgoodger.com/hulks/) - [House in the Middle](https://stephgoodger.com/house-in-the-middle/) - Dense smoke cast heavy shadows across the Nevada Test Site.This series was inspired by a film of the same name, the House in the Middle: "The dingy house on the left. The dirty and littered house on the right. Or the clean, white house in the middle. It is your choice. The reward may be - [Beasts](https://stephgoodger.com/beasts/) - [The Twilight Kingdom](https://stephgoodger.com/the-twilight-kingdom/) - [Contact](https://stephgoodger.com/contact/) - [Legal notice](https://stephgoodger.com/legal-notice/) - Qui sommes-nous ? Représenté par Steph Goodger Hébergement SAS OVH2, rue Kellermann. BP 80157 – 59100 Roubaix | +33 9 72 10 10 07 Politique de confidentialité Nous considérons les informations personnelles telles que nom, adresse postale, courrier électronique ou numéro de téléphone, comme des informations à caractère privé et confidentiel.Par conséquent, nous ne divulguons aucune - [Archives](https://stephgoodger.com/archives/) - PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ## Galleries - [The War Room](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-war-room/) - ['Art's Ugly Right?' at Danielle Arnaud, 2025](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/arts-ugly-right-at-danielle-arnaud-2025/) - [The Crossing](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-valley-2/) - [Lusitania at De Queeste Art](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/lusitania-at-de-queeste-art/) - [Carried on the Wind at Cornerstone Gallery](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/carried-on-the-wind-at-cornerstone-gallery/) - [Bed at Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, 2024](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/1103/) - [A Day In The Life at School Gallery, Folkestone, 2025](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/a-day-in-the-life-at-school-gallery-folkestone-2025/) - [Exceptional Faults at APT Gallery, Deptford, 2024](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/exceptional-faults-at-apt-gallery-deptford-2024/) - [The Doom](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-doom/) - [Battle for the Skies](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/battle-for-the-skies/) - [Lusitania oils](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/lusitania-oils/) - [Carried on the Wind at School Gallery, Folkestone](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/carried-on-the-wind-at-school-gallery-folkestone/) - [The Valley](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-valley/) - [The Valley Watercolours](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/pearls-watercolours/) - [Towner Eastbourne 2022-23](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/towner-eastbourne-2022-23/) - [The Dream House](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-dream-house/) - [Pearls oval paintings](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/pearls-oval-paintings/) - [Lusitania](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/382/) - [The Commune Non-réclamés](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-commune-non-reclames/) - [A History Painting](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/a-history-painting/) - [Hulks](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/hulks/) - [Beasts](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/beasts/) - [Installation Shots 2020-21](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/installation-shots-2020-21/) - [John Moores 2020](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/john-moores-2020/) - [Inferno](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/inferno/) - [The Motherland oils](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-motherland-oils/) - [Small Infernos](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/small-infernos/) - [John Moores 2016](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/449/) - [Pearls collage](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/pearls-collage/) - [The Twilight Kingdom](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-twilight-kingdom/) - [Articles of War](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/articles-of-war/) - [The commune peepshow theatre](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-commune-peepshow-theatre/) - [The Commune Barricades](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-commune-barricades/) - [House in the Middle](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/house-in-the-middle/) - [The Motherland Watercolours](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_gallery/the-motherland-watercolours/) ## Categories - [Non classé](https://stephgoodger.com/category/non-classe/) - [GALLERIES](https://stephgoodger.com/category/galleries/) - [ABOUT](https://stephgoodger.com/category/about/) - [INSTALLATIONS](https://stephgoodger.com/category/installations/) - [NEWS](https://stephgoodger.com/category/news/) ## Gallery Tags - [The Motherland](https://stephgoodger.com/rl_tag/the-motherland/)