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Jules de Goede
Tracing the Black Hole
16 June - 23 July 2006
View online catalogue NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL 20 JUNE (requires adobe pdf
reader)
“I do not mean by beauty of form such beauty as that of animals
or pictures, but straight lines and circles, and the plane solid figures
which are formed out of them by turning lathes, rulers and measurers of
angles; for these I affirm to be not only relatively beautiful, like other
things, but eternally and absolutely beautiful, and they have peculiar
pleasures…” Plato Philebus
Jules de Goede was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1937. At 19 he left Holland
for Australia, where he held three one-person shows and took part in some
30 shows. At the age of 28, de Goede relocated to England and formulated
his signature "black hole" concept, producing paintings with
the aid of hollow tubes which allowed him to work below the surface of
the canvas. Several shows and much attention followed, and de Goede soon
found himself occupying studio space alongside Peter Sedgeley and Bridget
Riley at St. Katherine's Dock. Following the purchase of the dock two
years later for development, de Goede, together with 32 other artists,
moved to Stepney Green and set up studio space. As resident artist there,
de Goede initiated open studios, a concept now widely used throughout
the world. In 1974 De Goede was selected by the Arts Council of Great
Britain as one of four young Dutch artists to show at the Serpentine Gallery
in London. In 1972, he was invited to teach at Middlesex University in
the Fine Art Department where he remained as a senior lecturer until 2003.
He held a one-person show at the OXO Gallery in London in 1982, was a
Jerwood Prize Finalist in 1996 and has shown with the London Group on
a regular basis since 1992.
Public and Corporate Collections include:
Arts Council of Great Britain; Leicestershire Education Committee; Australian
National University; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Contemporary
Art Society; Eastern Arts Association; Museum Sztuki, Lodz Poland; Bedfordshire
Education Service; City Art Gallery, Bristol; Unilever; Deutsche Bank;
De Beers; BP Chemicals Ltd; Gallery Krikhaar, Amsterdam Holland; Johnson
and Johnson; Dean Whitter Reynolds; The Sedgwick Group; G.R.E. Properties;
Brown and Wood.
There is a 136 page illustrated catalogue accompanying the show, with
essays by Mel Gooding and Corinna Lotz.
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