Biography
I work in a range of media including video, performance, drawing, learning and social arts practice.
My recent practice has explored the effect of digital technology on our lived experience. My work feeds off our political, social and technological evolution (or regression) through collaging historical narratives, making comments on the future, all the while considered within the modes of science fiction and horror.
I am a member of collective gentle/radical, nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. In 2019 I exhibited at Jerwood Space, London as part of Survey, a major survey exhibition presenting new works by 15 early-career artists from across the UK and he was chosen for Selected VI, a film programme selected by Jarman Award nominees which toured nationally and internationally (2016).
Other notable exhibitions and performances include Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu and Chongqing, China (2016); Testspace, Spike Island, Bristol (2016); Europa, Transition Gallery, London (2016); and Uprisings, MOSTYN, Llandudno (2015). Residencies include URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); Standpoint Futures, Standpoint Gallery, London (2015).
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email: tom(at)thomas-goddard.com
born/Cardiff, 1980. lives/works Cardiff
Education
2007-08 PGCE Art & Design UWIC, University of Wales, Cardiff
2005-06 Digital Fine Art, Tower Hamlets College, London
2001-04 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
Selected Film Screenings
2022 Collection, On Art Film Festival, Multiple sites across Poland
2021 Culture is Ordinary, Festival of Voice, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2019 The word of mouse (grok your cornea gumbo), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
BF artist Film Festival, Graft, Lancaster & Set, London
2016 Chew Chew, Buenos Caos (Video Club), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chew Chew, Selected VI, Touring Film Programme nominated by Jarman Award shortlisted artists – Whitechapel Gallery, London; Watershed, Bristol; Nottingham Contemporary and others
2015 Chew Chew, Film Commission, Plymouth Art Weekender
2014 Bulletin, Film Commission for BBC/Outcasting Residency, supported by The Space and ACE
The Farthest Point of Navigation…, Fourth Wall Festival
2012 Potential Endings, Being Human Festival, University of London
Mobile Punch and Judy Man, Fourth Wall Film Festival, Cardiff Contemporary
Potential Endings, Facing Extinction, UCA Farnham
Selected Group Exhibitions/Performances
2022 Come to Sunny Prestatyn, arcade/campfa, Cardiff & Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin
2021 Imagining History, Oriel y Bont, Pontypridd
To Live and Think Like Pigs, Shift, Cardiff
Turner Prize, as part of gentle/radical, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2020 Fag Packet Gallery, Her-Mit Projects, Bristol curated by Natasha McCoy
Tail of the Pup, London curated by Mark Pearson
2019 Survey, g39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool; BALTIC-centre for contemporary art, Gateshead; bringing together new work by 15 early-career artists to explore contemporary artistic practice across the UK today
The Flip Flop of God, BALTIC-centre for contemporary art, Gateshead
The Last Blockbuster, g39, Cardiff
The Battle of Ninian Park, Swansea a-n Assembly, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Please Bow Your Heads, Dundee a-n Assembly
2018 Survey, Jerwood Space, London bringing together new work by 15 early-career artists to explore contemporary artistic practice across the UK today
2017 Operation Skye, Test Space International / Spike Island
Idle Hands are the Devil’s workshop, Chapter, Cardiff
2016 Europa, Transition Gallery, London
Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China
Regeneration-Expansion Art Festival, Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2015 An Interview with…, Experimentica Festival, Chapter, Cardiff
Red Files, Schwartz Gallery, London
Hungry?, Axis Web, Wakefield
Austerity Disco, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2014 TomTom, Model Gallery, Liverpool
From Here and There, Colorado, Denver, USA
2013 Trading Post, Library of Birmingham, Curated by Eastside Projects
Fantasista, Cello Factory, London Curated by Bearspace
2012 Undercurrents, The Tanks, Tate Modern
One Night Stand, Trade Gallery, Nottingham
Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Recent Residencies, Awards and Open Competitions:
2019 Selected for Mostyn Open, Mostyn, Llandudno
2018 a-n project bursary – connecting Birmingham, Cardiff & Glasgow artist scenes
2017 Wales Arts International / British Council travel funding to participate in URRA
2017 Selected for Plymouth Contemporary Open, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
2017 URRA residency (6 weeks), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Parc le Breos (6 months) Neolithic Burial Ground, supported by Cadw & Arts Council of Wales
2016 Wales Arts International / British Council travel funding to participate at Performance Festivals in China
2015 Creative Wales Award, ACW (Mentors: Bedwyr Williams and S Mark Gubb)
2015 Standpoint Futures (3 months) Standpoint Gallery, London
Wander Box (1 month) Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Unit(e) (1 month) G39, Cardiff
2014 Making the News, BBC Wales, Outcasting & The Space
Selected Public Art Commissions
2022 Lead Artist, Travelling Museum, The Box & Take A Part, Plymouth
2021 Logo design for Celf ar y Cyd
2020 Collection, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2019 Sculpture Play Kit, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
Taunton Youth Republic, Somerset Art Works, Breaking down Barriers, Taunton
2018 Dinas Powys, Waterstones Homes & Studio/Response
Queen of the Sea, STAMP, Caernarfon
2017 Love St Peters Love St Pauls, Meantime & Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham
2016 Barry Island Western Shelter with Simon Fenoulhet
Efford Heritage Sign, with Take Apart, Heritage Lottery Fund, Plymouth
2014 The Life, Death and Afterlife of Lizzie the Elephant, Locws International, Swansea
Professional Experience
2022-24 Lead Artist, Travelling Museum, Take A Part, Plymouth
2023 – 24 Mentor, Our Visual World, Wales Wide Deaf Artist Network, GS Artists
2022 Principal Boy, Filming, Editing, Music Composition for Kathryn Ashill
Lead Artist, Cultivate Youth Group, Sydney Nolan Trust
2021 Sunset Walks, Coordinator, Cardiff
Co-Lead Artist, Switch Project, Tonyrefail, RCT
Lead Artist, Yeovil Art Space, Yeovil
Lead Artist, Barnardos, young people in care, University of South Wales
2020-21 Fools Gold, Filming, Editing, Music Composition for Kathryn Ashill
2021 – 2024 a-n Artist Board Member
2020-21 Confident Futures, Lead artist working with young people in care, Cardiff University
2020-21 Lead artist, Voices from Care
2019 Learning & Engagement Lead, Cymru am Fenis / Wales in Venice
2019- Jerwood Art Advisor – application reader/scorer for Bursary and Fellowship applications ongoing
2018 Cardiff Assembly Programmer, a-n
2017 Lead Creative Schools – Garth & Maesteg collaborating with Stephanie Bolt & Dave Evans
Lead Creative Schools – Twyn, Caerphilly
2016 Hillside Prison Project, Engage Cymru
2016 – Project Producer, Criw Celf ongoing
Mentor to visual artist AJ Stockwell & playwright Anna Poole
2015 Public Engagement on Robert Mapplethorpe, Artist Rooms, Aberystwyth
2014 Member of the Plus Tate Steering panel
2011 Venice Plus Invigilator, Venice Biennale, Arts Council of Wales
Organiser of and Speaker at Dense Cluster, Bristol DivingSchool
Momentum, Lead Artist on project engaging hard to reach young people, Engage Cymru, ACW
Lead Artist and Mentor working with hard to reach young people, Oriel Davies & Engage Cymru
Lead Artist on Reach the Heights I & II working with hard to reach young people, Engage Cymru
2009-16 Learning & Participation Officer, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Talks
2022 Westfield Academy School, Yeovil
Creative Connections, Caring and Creative Learning for Young People through, and beyond, COVID 19, Online
2019 – Visiting Lecturer, University of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil ongoing
2020 Artist Make Change, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
2019 Artist Talk, Kunstalle Charlottenberg, Copenhagen
Visiting Lecturer, University of Worcester
2017 Visiting Lecturer, University of Northampton
Artist Talk, g39, Cardiff
2016 Speaker, Artes Mundi Learning Conference
Lecture on Museums & Artists working together, IdeasTap, Kent
Selected 6 – In conversation, Watershed, Bristol
Artist Talk, PAC Home, Plymouth Art Centre
Visiting Lecturer, Glyndwr, Wrexham University
2014 Visiting Lecturer, Bath Spa & University of Wales Speaker, BAFM Conference
Speaker, Industry Insights to Creative Arts Practice, Bath Spa University
Speaker, Engage Summer School, Padua, Italy
