Gregory Godhard, Life on Mars, 2010.
Gregory Godhard, The Goat Diorama, 2010.
Gregory Godhard, The Body, 2010.
“Gregory Godhard’s artistic practice is an extension of his childhood love of amateur model-making, combined with his adulthood passion for film-making. His new exhibition, My Own Little Worlds is a collection of miniature dioramas: fictional geographies of his own imagining, in which witty and whimsical narratives emerge, and hence unravel. The diorama is a unique creative model in that it is capable of concurrently bridging and inhabiting the space between various physical and immaterial binary oppositions: namely art and craft, and fictional narrative versus recounted event. Godhard’s background in animation and film is made self-evident, as he playfully remixes these examples into carefully considered and subtly deranged mis-en-scenes. He refers to his father’s architectural practice as an early creative influence, concerned as all design is with measured and precise representations of proposed plans and ideas. But unlike his architect-father (who necessarily utilised industry-standard modeling materials), Godhard has not-yet eschewed the kinder-ergonomic, material principles of his youth. Choosing instead to embrace the lo-fi aesthetic of “child’s craft”, he melds this with a now-mature sensibility for material, form and composition in snapshot-animations of imagined action, drama, horror and comedy…” – Gregory Godhard: My Own Little Worlds
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