Alison Goodyear works within an expanded understanding of the painting tradition, making experimental abstract paintings (physical/virtual/augmented reality), and scored moving-image films that perform as immersive encounters for screen, headset and installation. 

These works are created by combining traditional painting techniques with VR painting processes following a mapping, tracing and extrapolating approach based on photographs of her physical paint palettes. This approach reflects on the process of making paintings, from the banal methods such as mixing paint or blocking in colour, to the strategic aesthetic decisions regarding composition, form, colour, texture, and scale.

This approach was developed out of a need to document the painting process for her practice led PhD research, which examined contemporary painting practice, drawing on the theories of Denis Diderot, Michael Fried and David Joselit. Whilst exploring approaches to making paintings, these immersive works become three-dimensional digital worlds in their own right that work to subvert our classical understanding of landscape, testing the idea of “painting as place,” and what that might mean for artist and viewer.

Goodyear exhibits work on a national and international basis. Select successes include: a solo at Wetdovetail Gallery in Middlesbrough (September 2022), Supernova in Colorado (September 2022), Chaniartoon Festival in Greece (September 2022), Beep Painting Prize shortlist in Swansea (2022), Altered Festival in Chicago (June 2022), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant awardee (April 22-23), ‘Things Will Continue to Change’ group exhibition at the The Koppel Project Hive in Farringdon London, Resident Online Artist (January - March 2022) @The_Virtual_Studio for Wetdovetail Productions, the Undead Painters ‘The Long Echo’ exhibition at the Terrace Gallery Leyton (2021), ‘Paint Park’ experimental physical/XR painting installation at MK Gallery PS (February - March 2020), virtual paintings held in the VR Library at Gazelli Art House, London (ongoing), Contemporary British Painting exhibited shortlist (2018).

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