Sharon Goodwin is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, painting and drawing, referencing the visual languages, artefacts, mythologies and stereotypes found in popular culture, illustration and art history. Through their altering, repainting, recontextualising or reconfiguring as sculpture, Goodwin’s works explore the incongruity of these mythologies in present-day culture, their absurd promise, their embodiment in objects as well as the expectations we derive from them and our inevitable disappointment.
Goodwin’s work has always explored the fantastical, hinting at fairy tales gone awry, medical experiments worthy of Dr Frankenstein and teenage romance gone horribly wrong… She is a fabulist, a storyteller. Goodwin seems to be picking up on particularly potent zeitgeist. For all the comic-book humour that infuses these works, there is also a chilling sense of millennial angst.
Ashley Crawford, The Age, June 2006.