ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT UCREATIVE, CANTERBURY

Paul Goodrick

I will be working as an artist in residence at The University College for the Creative Arts between October 2006 and April 2007.

As an environmental artist with an interest in the relationship between the natural and the urban environments, my work at the College will involve the process of combining natural and made materials. The outcome will be sculptures or installation work. The facilities I will use are wide ranging – stone carving, woodworking and metal working, as well other sculptural work using a variety of media, including oil paint. This may link to off site work or into on-going projects and commissions, and any students interested in this aspect are welcome participate.

The end results of my residency work will be in the context of the process of combining, changing and enhancing materials and their metaphoric values. The artwork will also be based on research about the materials themselves and to this end I will be using the library facilities and the Internet. I will also use digital technologies to create a narrative of the whole project on the greencube website, and this will be updated after each visit to Ucreative.

Although my work generally looks at nature or uses natural materials, it is often the case that the object and the materials develop their own identities and values which transcend any originally intended notions or ideas. Process and positioning helps to make this happen too. Many of my projects involve other people, often all making the same object, and these objects are brought together as a single installation. It will be interesting to see what happens by working in an Art College environment as a professional artist.