Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Pair) (1999), in the upper woodland by the chalk pit at Goodwood Art FoundationPhotograph by Lucy Dawkins, courtesy of Goodwood Art Foundation
Charles Richmond, 11th Duke of Richmond, has done something decidedly ambitious in launching the Goodwood Art Foundation, a new non-profit contemporary art centre for the southeast of England, with a strong educational mission. The foundation is set high on the South Downs, in West Sussex, at the heart of the Goodwood Estate that Richmond and his forebears have made, over the past 350 years, into a thriving home for horse racing, motorsport, organic farming and the family’s historic art collection.
Richmond and the foundation have engaged, over the past three years, in a multi-faceted task: the reimagining of a 70-acre plot of meadow and woodland (part of which was formerly the home of the Cass Art Foundation), overseen by the celebrated landscape designer Dan Pearson; the refurbishment of two existing pavilions to 21st-century climate-controlled standards; the building of 24, a new steel-clad restaurant designed by Studio Downie Architects, creators of the original 1990s pavilions; and the devising of a launch season of contemporary art overseen by the independent curator Ann Gallagher, the former director of collections for British art at Tate.
Gallagher’s headline exhibition consists of sculptures new and old by the Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread and an absorbing first full-scale show of Whiteread’s photography. Gallagher has also brought together an installation of new work and old—shown across the foundation's landscape and in its galleries and café—by the contemporary artists Rose Wylie, Veronica Ryan, Susan Philipsz, Amie Siegel and Lubna Chowdhary.
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