About the work

Poking fun at the tamed, inbred biopolitics of the pedigree dog, the drawing juxtaposes rival notions of the animal: the domesticated and the wild.

Date and country of birth

1984, GB

About the artist

Born 1984 London, Patrick Goddard lives and works in London. Graduated from BA (hons) Fine Art, Bath Spa University (2006); MFA Fine Art Goldsmiths University (2011); and PhD Fine Art, from Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (2019).

Creating sculpture, film, drawing, performance, photography and installation; Goddard’s politically loaded and narrative based works undermine themselves with a self-defeating black comedy.

Selected solo exhibitions include Trip to Eclipse, Matt’s Gallery, London (2020); Real Estates, Seventeen, London (2019); Ghost House, (Outset commission), Drawing Room, London (2018); Go Professional, Seventeen, London (2017); The Hellish Cycle Complete, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham (2017); Looking for the Ocean Estate, Almanac Projects, London (2016); The Hellish Cycle, Blackrock/Matts Gallery, Gloucestershire (2016); Gone to Croatan, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2015); and Revlover II, Matt’s Gallery, London (2014). Selected group exhibitions include Essex Road 6, Tin Type Gallery, London (2020); The Wasserman Kids, Et al. Ect., San Francisco (2020); Meanwhile, Lower Green, Norwich (2018); The Skin of the Eye, Act I, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen (2018); Is This It?, State of the Art, Berlin (2017); Zero Recoil Damage, Folkestone Triennial (2017); For & Against, RADAR, Loughborough (2017); The Bullet Returns to Where the Shot Was Fired, House of Ergon, Berlin (2016); and Planned Obsolescence, Miltronic, Moscow (2016).

Awards and Residencies include AHRC funding for Doctor of Philosophy at Ruskin College, Oxford University (2018); The White House, CREATE London, Dagenham (2016); Elephant Trust Grant for production of ‘Operation Paperclip’ (2013); and The Chelsea Arts Club Award and Grant (2011).