HELLO!

I’m Katie also known as Koko to my family and friends. I was brought up in St Albans and Basingstoke, UK, by 3 thoroughly modern women - a single mum of 4, a brilliantly witty granny and a multilingual auntie who instilled in me a tenacity to keep creating, a mend and make do mentality and sense of humour which leaks through into my art practice. I was a really shy child and despite being sporty and part of a big family, had a several operations so spent recuperating and painting. I sold my first painting of Noah’s Ark in a charity show aged 9 and then made pocket money selling paintings of St Albans architecture.

I went on to study Fine Art & Art History at Goldsmiths, and soon after graduating, after, I moved to Sydney, Australia and worked in the film industry over there. Whilst working long hours I came back home and painted and started collecting beach plastic to photograph and showed these ‘Crap Landscapes’ at Manly Art Gallery. I came back to Britain and completed a Masters in Fine Art with Distinction at Wimbledon School of Art in 2011.

I constantly take photos and use them as source material to make videos and animations and prints and paint. I often see beauty in junk and the forgotten and the in-between. Play and humour and collaboration are important in my work as in my life. I am a quiet environmentalist and try to do my bit for the planet.

As well as being a frequent gallery visitor, I am a cinephile and, as I mellow, I’m often can be found cycling around, walking the dog or reading in my local cafe. I live with my son, partner, sometimes his daughter and our dog in London.


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Katie Goodwin (AUS/UK) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She completed a Masters in Fine Art with Distinction at Wimbledon School of Art in 2011. Katie has had solo shows at ArtLacuna, London; Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich; Qube Gallery, Oswestry; Akkigalleria, Finland and Temporary Art Projects, Southend-on-Sea. She had a duo show with artist Rachel Lancaster at Tyneside Cinema gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2015. Prominent group exhibitions include New Contemporaries, London Short Film Festival and Swedenborg Film Festival and internationally touring 971 Horses & 4 Zebras which screened at Tate Modern, London, Monash University Melbourne, Contemporary Art Space, Tasmania. Goodwin had a painting selected in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025. In 2026 her painting Walk the Line won her an Auto Amor painting residency. Her work is in the V&A print collection and Great Ormond Street Hospital art collection.