Kate Goodrich (b 1977) is a multi-disciplinary artist working across abstracted mixed media paintings and collage. Goodrich uniquely grows the materials for her practice, which draws from a broad knowledge base of permaculture principles and sustainable methods of growing and preserving plant matter.  A non-interventionist approach is threaded through Goodrich’s practice. The responsive building of the image, rather than the immediate capture of a moment. Her works involve layering, textures and distortion. Following themes that respond to our environments shapes and forms.

Goodrich’s utilisation of biodynamic principles to nurture her materials reaches apogee in her solo show, Gunneraceae. Where she worked with Super Moon cycles to produce large scale works on both canvas and paper. Working with Luna cycles bought a new approach for the artists practice, and one that she continues to investigate today.

Experimenting with different forms and found materials during her 2024 stay at artist residency, Thread Senegal, part of the Josef and Anni Albers residency program. Gathering and sewing leaves together as series of meditative making sessions with local children who joined Goodrich at her work. This collective sharing of moments translated into a composition of forms and materials. As Goodrich describes: " "We've made a visual language, an alphabet...'. This non-verbal communication, a kind of doing as being, is reflected in the rituals of how we inhabit space and make it our own.

Goodrich’s expanding body of work preserves and responds to the delicate balance between nature and nurture, a timely reflection on our relationship with the environment.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, FT Weekend, The Independent, Gasoline,  Modern Living, Grandiflora, The Museum of British Folklore, Hole & Corner, Elle Decoration UK and RHS, The times, Architectural Digest Magazine.

Goodrich’s works are held in private collections globally, and are part of the Museum of British Folklores permanent collection.

Artist in residence  

Sarabande 2024/2025

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation - THREAD Senegal - October 2024 

195 Mare Street - February - October 2023

Exhibitions

Pinpoint, group show, Sarabande foundation 2025, Gunneraceae solo show ~195 Mare Street London E8 Sep-Oct 2023 | Beyond Silver  London Alternative Photography collective Hive Birmingham UK January 2023 | SEED BED - land art 195 Mare Street E8 Public sculpture May - October 2023 | Sketches from land, group show Hove 2022 | Gasoline issue 5 - The Photographers Gallery London 2018 | Gasoline street show, London + Paris 2017 | Deep End Club, New York 2017 | Christie’s, London The Ballad of British Folklore 2016 | Gasoline street show, New York  2016 | V&A The Cloth Project  2000 |

Professorship:  Associate Lecturer, London College of Fashion ~ University of the Arts London 2006-2012

Goodrich’s expanding body of work preserves and represents the delicate balance between nature and nurture:

a timely reflection on our relationship with the environment.