Della Gooden

I'm delighted to welcome Della Gooden as the next artist in residence at Pasture. She will be working here during November and December. Della is a British artist, writer and curator whose work often takes the form of site-responsive installations. She is committed to painting and drawing, whilst being dimensionally attentive to the architectural, spatial and material context in which her work is made. The contradictions that this way of working presents is explored and expressed in specific works - for example, the role of the wall.

Until recently Della’s painting and drawing installations have usually been made inside, within an architectural context; in a room, a crumbling outhouse, or an enclosed space of some sort. In 2025, for the first time, work was made specifically outdoors; on the mountainside in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and on Sveti Nikola Island, Croatia.

During her residency here at Pasture Project Space, Della will continue to work outdoors, this time in the unique environment of the Water Meadows of Sudbury, Suffolk. Initial research trips before the residency have focused on some of the architectural structures and agricultural features found in the ‘scapes’ of land, water, and sky. Of potential interest to Della is how these structures and features exist outdoors, and yet are still contained; still part of a larger interior… objects under the sky…

Strands of Della's practice that have a co-operative influence on her studio output are curating and writing. From 2005 to 2011 she curated the project space VINEspace and then Gooden Gallery in East London where she developed alternative platforms like 24SEVEN and A One Night Stand with… for performances, screenings and happenings. She is a founding member of Working Spaces (a collective and research group in the UK that explores painting’s spatiality). In December 2025 her most recent text ‘The Void; a fertile space’ will be published in ‘Discourses’ by the Royal Academy Discourse Forum. 



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