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Nail Banners and Flags

Goodman’s distinctive, colourful and tightly-intertwined nail sculptures that often look like writhing snakes have begun to unravel into ribbons, scrolls or discarded bandages that have a more distinctly sardonic tone as they become text-based works that allude to digital signage with their flickering, impermanent empty messages on constant repeat. I WANT MORE reads a flag of pink, blue and silver acrylic nails; THIS IS IT/IS THIS IT? repeats in and on itself in a twisted blue and gold scroll, that reflects an emptiness felt by those who want for nothing, materially. The archetype behind this demanding uncertainty is searching for a world beyond the one they know and own.

Nail Banners and Flags

Goodman’s distinctive, colourful and tightly-intertwined nail sculptures that often look like writhing snakes have begun to unravel into ribbons, scrolls or discarded bandages that have a more distinctly sardonic tone as they become text-based works that allude to digital signage with their flickering, impermanent empty messages on constant repeat. I WANT MORE reads a flag of pink, blue and silver acrylic nails; THIS IS IT/IS THIS IT? repeats in and on itself in a twisted blue and gold scroll, that reflects an emptiness felt by those who want for nothing, materially. The archetype behind this demanding uncertainty is searching for a world beyond the one they know and own.

Give and Take

Give and Take

2023, Acrylic Nails, Batting, Wire, Silcone, Fiberglass, 86 x 229 x 39cm

White Knuckling It

White Knuckling It

2023, Acrylic Nails, Batting, Silicone Glue, Fiberglass, 89 x 130 x 20cm

Live! Love! Life!

Live! Love! Life!

2023, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, Batting, Fiberglass, 155 x 70 x 48 cm

Burn Bright

Burn Bright

2024, Batting, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 51 x 95 x 16cm

A Smile to Hide the Pain

A Smile to Hide the Pain

2021, Foam, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 97 x 160 x 32cm

No Regrets

No Regrets

2022, Foam, wire, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 52 x 125 x 22cm

I Want More

I Want More

2022, Foam, wire, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 128 x 54 x 25cm

More is More

More is More

2021, Foam, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 82 x 186 x 45cm

Show Me Your Teeth

Show Me Your Teeth

2021, Chicken wire, batting, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 176 x 80 x 36cm

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