Fine Artist, London.

Photograph by Rosalind Hobley, part of her “Swimmers” project 2020

Photograph by Rosalind Hobley, part of her “Swimmers” project 2020

Judy Goldhill has been involved in the creative use of photography as a medium for artistic expression for several decades. Having completed a BA in Fine Art she went on to be picture Editor of the British Journal of Photography and co-editor of Creative Camera. Subsequently, following a career as a photojournalist, she graduated from Central Saint Martins with a Masters in Fine Art in 2007.  She has participated in a wide range of exhibitions, both collaborative and solo, with practices based on video installations, artist’s books and assemblages. 

Goldhill’s practice uses photography and the moving image to reiterate the elemental and to explore indexical imprints in the landscape, which has prompted a shift to explore the wider universe and reconnect to the human dimension. She is absorbed in the observation and interpretation of the extremes: light/dark; visible/invisible; micro/macro, using vestiges of the sublime in the natural world to connect to a disclosure of the enormity of the universe. 

Her recent exhibitions include Breathe at the Freud Museum, London, that examined early parental loss and Travelling Companions at ARB, University of Cambridge, which investigated personal belongings as 'travelling companions to life' as well as the notion of celestial objects as travelling companions to explorers. In 2022 she exhibited at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, Mending the Psyche: Art as Reparation, which examined the ongoing process of mourning, in this instance work centred around elemental matters- experiences of mortal illness and the composition of the earth itself. All exhibitions were collaborations with artist Fay Ballard. Her solo exhibition, Dark Skies, curated by Ro Spankie was first shown in Hay Castle as part of the Hay Winter Festival in 2023 and subsequently exhibited at Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk in the autumn of 2024. Both exhibitions were accompanied by talks with astronomer Stephen Pompea ( University of Leiden) and the curator Ro Spankie ( University of Westminster).

Beside installations and wall-mounted photographs, Judy’s book works explore movement, stillness and repetition. Her artist’s books have been acquired by numerous collections, including Tate, V&A, The New York Public Library, Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Arts Library and MACBA. Her complete collection was acquired by The British Library for its Contemporary British Published Collections.

Judy’s film Raki’a, made with Steven Fogel, conjures the vast forces in the universe and was first screened at the Venice Biennale 2019 as part of Alive in the Universe.

 

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