About the work

This drawing is the red ballpoint pen version of the black ballpoint pen version I made in 2016. The black version was shown in the Virginia Woolf exhibition at Tate St. Ives, Cornwall. The exhibition toured the UK throughout 2018 from Tate St. Ives, to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It is a self-portrait.

Date and country of birth

1962, GB

About the artist

Born 1962 London, Penny Goring lives and works in London. Graduated from BA Fine Art (Painting), Kingston University (1994); and Fashion Writing at London College of Fashion (1981).

Penny Goring makes paintings, sculptures, drawings and poems that are explorations of the contemporary state of emergency.

Selected exhibitions include Escape from Blood Castle, Campoli Presti, Paris (2020); Alles Notwendige, works from the Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne (2020); Hello? God Is The Space Between Us, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2020); Paint, Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2019); Safe Words, Elene Abashidze Project Space, Tbilisi (2019); I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA, London (2019); Here Here – Dax Ich Und Alles Andere, Braunsfelder, Cologne (2018); Breaking Shells, Koppel Project, London (2018); Virginia Woolf, Tate, St Ives (2018); Prelude, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2017); (Enter – Greek chorus into the echo chamber), David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2017); Le Nouveau Voyeurisme, Hotel Contemporary, Milan (2017); and Damaged Gods, Arcadia Missa, London (2016).