Exhibitions

Showing the work, sharing the vision

Peter Goode took every opportunity to exhibit, even with modest means, in order to make visible a body of work already fully alive before formal art education.

The dates below are reconstructed from the available documents. They combine festivals, student exhibitions, outdoor sculpture events and local moments of recognition.

Sculptures presented at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Peter took every opportunity to exhibit his work.

Josie Pollentine

A Touch of Pollen painting
Circa 1992 Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

All life lives on a leaf

An exhibition of paintings accompanied by poetic captions. Peter shows works linked to pollen, fruit, leaves and the embryo.

Associated documents: Brian Taylor photographs, exhibition captions

Focus: Painting, poetic captions, vegetal life

Ink postcard by Peter Goode
1994 Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Paintings and artistic encounters

An important public moment and a key artistic exchange. Peter also sees Daniel Paolo's work there, an experience that later feeds his own ink postcard series.

Associated documents: Photos, exhibition memories, captions

Focus: Painting, graphic experimentation

Earth Mother sculpture
1996 Hardcastle Crags Sculpture Trail

Outdoor sculptures and carvings

Sculptures and carvings presented in a landscape setting, where material and nature directly resonate with Peter's imagination.

Associated documents: Photographs of sculptures and installations

Focus: Sculpture, wood, stone, landscape

Epicentre of Water painting
Mid-1990s Todmorden Show

Awards and local recognition

Peter submits several works to Todmorden Show and receives awards there, marking a growing public recognition of his work in the region.

Associated documents: Captions, recollections, partial photo archive

Focus: Public recognition, painting

Peter Goode with Earth Mother
2000 Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale

Finals exhibition

A student finals exhibition in which Earth Mother appears, bringing institutional visibility to a practice that was already fully mature.

Associated documents: Photograph of Peter with Earth Mother

Focus: Sculpture, art education, transmission