“Hair getting tangled up in the brush is an inconvenient everyday phenomenon. Practical, however, when one can turn this inconvenience into an object of beauty: a brush with hair perhaps. For his sculptures and installations, Michael Goodward combines commonplace domestic and industrial materials in an often poetic and humorous manner. His imaginative use of materials can currently be admired at the Zero Arts gallery in Stuttgart.” (Lift09, 2009)

Lift 09.09

“Not satisfied with the ‘golden shot’, the noble junky can now take the ‘diamond shot’: hundreds of tiny Swarovski crystals sparkle from within the cylinder of a syringe placed in a velvet-covered case. Currently living in Switzerland, the object art design-gimmicks of the British-born Michael Goodward distort the practical value of commonplace things, sometimes absurdly, sometimes frivolously. The watch, upon the dial of which is printed the simple word ‘Now’, gives the final existential avowal. Hours do not strike for the happy man.” (Stuttgarter Zeitung, 18.09.09)

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installation of plugs and plugholes. plugholes are fitted flush into the floor. plugs hang from ceiling directly above respective plughole as shown. dimensions variable.

CD and nylon stocking wall mounted objects

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black and white photograph (juerg and nicole smoking) on RC paper cut into 99 ‘fragments’. each fragment is signed, numbered, placed into a small glass bottle (6 x 1.5 cm) and documented as above. each bottle: 6x 1.5 cm.