18/08/2026
Opening Friday Aug 21 at 17:00 - 19:00 ☀️
FRANCES GOODMAN: "Peroral"
In her new solo exhibition, Frances Goodman brings together a series of hand-quilted works and glazed ceramics that explore desire, consumption, and the language of contemporary digital communication.
In Peroral, Goodman explores what we put into our mouths - food, medicine, and sources of pleasure - as well as the images we use to communicate desire. At once playful and provocative, the works move between nourishment and indulgence, health and pleasure, and the physical and the virtual. A series of meticulously hand-quilted works takes the visual form of pharmaceutical blister packs. In Goodman’s hands, the familiar meanings of these objects begin to collapse and blur.
The exhibition takes its title from the medical term peroral, meaning administered or taken through the mouth. The mouth becomes a point of departure for considering both physical consumption and contemporary forms of communicationThe blister pack is an instantly recognisable object associated with medication, relief, and the promise of an immediate solution. Goodman recreates it through the painstaking processes of hand quilting, appliqué, thread, and fabric. An object associated with speed and immediate effect is thus transformed through an intensely slow and repetitive physical process.
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FRANCES GOODMAN
"Feel Better VI", 2026
Hand-quilted and appliqued fabric, plastic, batting, thread
61 x 72 x 2 cm
Unique
Frances Goodman
