Kay Goodridge - BIO

My work has evolved since leaving the University of Westminster with a BA honours in Photography, in 1992. As a mature student, I made a decision to live a creative life, whatever it takes, and this decision led me to working in the arts from my mid-thirties until now, I made a living working part time as a teacher/ facilitator/workshop leader, and was the Co-Ordinator of the Festival of Women Photographers for the eastern region for several years. I always made time to develop my own career as an artist as well as passing on skills to others.

Personal family history, memories of childhood and social injustice have all formed a large part of my motivation in creating my practice which is characterised by my use and re-use of found imagery, using family album photos and images from the media.

I use a combination of both digital and analogue photography, using alternative processes, such as liquid emulsion, collage, paint, and text, experimenting with interrupting/breaking/disrupting the surface of an image. This results in f making marks and gestures on the image that create echoes or memories from the past.

Projects include; Reading Between the Lines, A Living Archive, and The Space Between, the Myth of Return, and provide a broad sweep of the many sources of inspiration in my work over recent years.

Since 2019, I have been making films that document actions that confront the climate emergency, often in collaborative projects involving several photographers or videographers to form a montage of footage and stills in a creative way.

CV

Qualifications

2002

MA in Photographic Studies, De Montfort University

1998 - 1999

1st year of MA in Photographic Studies at University of Westminster

1988 - 1992

BA Honours in Photography from University of Westminster

Employment/Work Experience

1992 - Present

Self employed photographer, artist, facilitator and project manager

2007 - 2010

Development Associate for Arts and Minds –Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation for the Arts and Mental Health.

1999 - 2003

Teacher of A level Photography at Hills Road Sixth Form College

1992 -1997

Neighbourhood Arts Worker at Cambridge City Council Community Arts Department

1993 - 1996

Co-ordinator Festival of Women Photographers, Eastern Region, funded by Arts Council and Eastern Arts Board

1996 - 1999

Co-ordinator Women's Photographic Network East

Residencies

August 2024

Artist in Residence - Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridgeshire

November 2015

Artist in Residence - Peterborough Prison

October 2012

Artist in residence - Birkbeck College, London

August 2010

Artist in Residence - Tuili Culture Festival, Sardinia, Italy

2010

AA2A (Access for Artists to Art Schools)

October 2009

Artist in Residence - Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

April 2008 – Feb 2009

Artist in Residence – The Museum of Technology, Cambridge

May 2006 – Nov 2006

Artist in Residence- The Leper Chapel, Cambridge

Sept 2003 - June 2004

Artist in Residence - Addenbrookes Hospital Archives

February 1998

Artist in Residence - Swavesey Archeological Dig Cambs.

March 1999

County Council

October - Dec 1999

Artist in Residence –Corona House, Women and Homelessness (Cambridge Housing Society)

Exhibitions (since 2002)

2024

'Artist in Residency', Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridgeshire

2022

'No Going Back' Solo show: Locker Cafe Cambridge

2020

'True Stories for Change', Cambridge Commons

2020

Virtual Gallery online (due to Lockdown in the UK)

2019

'For Everything a Reason', Winter exhibition at Fen Ditton

2019 - 2021

Mixed Bag Theatre - Performances at Cambridge Drama Centre

2017

'The Sound of Home' - launch of 1 hour radio documentary on Resonance Radio (interviews and music with refugees resettled in the UK)

2016

'The Bigger Picture' - exhibition and sound installation at the Dawn Project, Peterborough

2016

'The Bigger Picture' Exhibition sound installation and film at Peterborough Prison

June/July 2012

'The Myth of Return', installation of sound and image, at Artspace, Cambridge, collaboration with Norah Al-Ani

March 2012

'The Space Between', commission resulting in solo show at The Wiener Library, Russell Square, London and The Crypt Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Sq. London. Also showing in the foyer of St Martin-in-the-fields until September 2012, as part of the Journeys exhibition.

November 2011

'Connessione' – Exhibition of photos at Aghinas, Bosa, Sardinia

August 2010

'Lost and Found' – solo show during residency at Tuili Culture Festival, Sardinia

November 2009

Retrospective 1992-2009 – exhibition and installation at Fen Ditton, Cambridge

May 2009

'Love Art, Hate Discrimination' – group exhibition in liaison with Cambridge Open Art Space

February 2009

'Out of the Ashes' – Installation at Cambridge Museum of' Technology as final part of artist’s residency

Sept-Oct 2008

'The World in Your Face' – Open Space Cambridge Artworks in collaboration with Norah Al-Ani

November 2006

'Traces Through Time' – The Leper Chapel, Cambridge. Solo exhibition as result of residency

December 2005

'I’m not Serving Time…' National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford

November 2005

'Fragility'- Zoology Museum, Cambridge

October 2005

'In Sight' - Guildhall, Cambridge

September 2005

Summer Mix , Byard Art, Cambridge

July 2005

Cambridge Open Studios

July 2004

'The Mundane and the Monumental' – Cambridge University Design and Illustration Service, Cambridge

July 2004

'Our Silence is Your Comfort' – solo show at BCA Gallery, Bedford

December 2003

'Faith' open submission exhibition at Cambridge Artworks

September 2003

Air Gallery, Dover Street, London. 'The Obesity Show' - first prize with images 'BodyScapes' from Outrageous Agers

July 2003

Cambridge Shopping Forum - 'Pretty Pictures' exhibition of photographs

March 2000 – May 2003

Touring 'Outrageous Agers' - collaboration with Rosy Martin. Peri Gallery, Turku, Finland Focal Point Gallery, Southend On Sea and Light House Gallery, Wolverhampton

March 2003

CamIris Women’s Photography Group Show, CB2 café, Cambridge

May 2002

Art, Age and Gender, Orleans House Gallery, London

Publications

'Gender Issues in Art Therapy', edited by Susan Hogan. Article 'Challenging Invisibility - Outrageous Agers' , written by Rosy Martin, Marsha Meskimmon, and Rachel Grear, about 'Outrageous Agers', which included and theorised on our collaborate work.
'Women Making Art' by Marsha Meskimmon. Included in chapter 'Performance: Desire and the Inscribed Body'.
'Masquerade - Women's Contemporary Portrait Photography', included in article 'Beyond the Frame: Narratives of Otherness'.
'Art, Age, and Gender' - Women Explore the Issues catalogue.
'Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations' edited by Josie Dolan - Photo-essay, 'Outrageous Agers: Performativity and Transgression Take Two' by Rosy Martin and Kay Goodridge
'Outrageous Agers' included in 'Feminist Art, Activisms, and Artivisms' by Katy Deepwell.
'Photography a Feminist History' by Emma Lewis, Tate.
'The Art of Feminism', Tate.

Freelance Workshops and Projects

Cambridge City Council
Age Concern
YMCA Cambridge
Arts and Minds – Cambridgeshire Association for the Arts and Mental Health
Stretch - Charity Widening Participation
Richmond Fellowship
Cambridge Women and Homelessness Group
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Addenbrookes Hospital
Cambridge Preservation Society
Artist in Schools
Cambridge Folk Museum
Kettles Yard Gallery
Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre
Menagerie Theatre
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO)
Inspire –wellbeing through arts
Asian Girl’s Group
Linton Village College
Education Otherwise than At School (EOTAS)
Inspire – Wellbeing through Arts