‘View From This Side’ – 2026
I have a collection of over 3000 discarded 35mm colour slides – another example of the ‘life document detritus’ that simply gets junked, overlooked and disregarded. The slides, often Kodachrome or Agfacrhome, cover the usual topics one would expect – holidays, outdoor vistas, family occasions, plants, flowers, pets, modes of transport, buildings, and even snapshots of past TV programmes – the list goes on. On their own, most are unremarkable; however, something interesting can occur when two 35mm colour slides are combined. The images here are slides overlaid on each other. Sometimes it works, other times it’s less successful.
(c) John Goodwin, 2026
Open Eye Gallery – Liverpool 26 Jun 2026 and 31 Aug 2026
I am exhibiting my piece ‘Snapshots in the Garden’. An 8×4 presentation of discarded vintage garden photography (photographs mounted on wood). It’s at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, and the full exhibition is curated by the artists Gary Bratchford and Stuart Whipps. Here are some images of the set-up.
(c) John Goodwin, 2026
Untitled March 2026
Instax film, ink.
(c) John Goodwin, 2026
McCahon B+W, 2026
Instax film, ink
(c) John Goodwin, 2026
After McCahon, 2025
Instax film, ink
(c) John Goodwin, 2025
The Craft, 2024
The words of C Wright Mills, Collage and Print on Board.
(c) John Goodwin, 2024
Return to Winston Parva, 2018
Goodwin, J. (2018) Return to Winston Parva: Sex and Violence at the “Regal, Black and White Photograph on Board, mixed media, University of Leicester Images of Research, Finalist and Exhibitor. ( see McCormack, Kelly et al. (2018). Images Of Research 2018. University of Leicester. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.7976873.v2).
(c) John Goodwin, 2018