Joseph Goddard West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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I am an artist predominately concerned with post war architecture, it's inherent ideology, aesthetics, structural forms and the effects it has upon its inhabitants. I explore these themes in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and print in order to broaden and investigate related ideas.

Joseph Goddard’s latest sculptural project, Heritage, creates an intersection between urbanism, abstraction and expressionism. The work acts as an uprooting of artefacts forged in the former modernist era. Fragments suggestive of monumentality indicate a duality of process and the passing of time, as the hyperactivity of unfiltered consciousness is scrawled on to the surfaces of slow glacial modernist structures. Displaced, relocated into the now and displayed in armatures , the work stimulates questions regarding the effects and functions of post-war relics, provoking an ambivalence of protection, warning, veneration and restraint . “My work is responsive to early memories of encountering big cities; the feeling of stepping into a set, one filled with props and constructs ; testaments to the grand visions of their makers and their unwieldly doctrines. Ever since then the urban-scape has never failed to offer moments and objects of real presence. I see cities as arenas of competing ambitions and ideologies; dialogues exist between structures, materials and gestures, which echo from the past, permeate the present and encroach into the future. There are times and encounters which, although are happenstance, just feel too designed, they radiate aura and emanate the spirit of art. At these times it feels as if the environment’s sole function is to operate as an art object, it instils within me a desire to fuse, sculpt and atomise these forms and their associations at will .” In dealing with the familiar-made-incongruous, Heritage foregrounds notions of legacy, preservation, ruination, functionality and fragility, whilst playing across the rift of modern art practices.