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Haarlem Artspace is a gallery in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, championing rural contemporary art.
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There are just two weekends left to catch my solo show Night Feed at @haarlemartspace ~ open Friday-Sunday 12-6pm in the wonderful town of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. The majority of this new body of work was made (vigorously!) whilst working in Studio 5 at @porthmeorstudios in April earlier this year, thanks to the support of @aceagrams Develop Your Creative Practice Fund and the amazing application support from @hcascampbell 🙏 I hope people get to see this work in the flesh✨👁️👁️✨ 📸 studio shot before packing up with two of my three babies 🐾🐣🐣
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Sophie Goodchild: Night Feed “I’m so much more focused on making in the moment rather than thinking ahead to what it will become.” Sophie Goodchild’s felted works develop through a process of building, wetting and compressing layers of wool. Using water, soap and friction, she transforms loose fibres into richly textured surfaces, working with the material to develop lines, patterns and compositions. The process is physical and gradual. As the wool is worked, the fibres bind together and the material changes, affecting the arrangement of colours and forms. The finished work reflects both the artist’s decisions and the particular qualities of the medium. Although Goodchild’s practice has its roots in painting, felt allows her to approach image-making through the construction of the surface itself. Texture, colour and line emerge through the manipulation of the wool, rather than being applied to a separate ground. For Night Feed, this process provides a way to explore the connections between material, bodily experience and the landscape, with the finished works retaining a sense of the time and touch involved in their creation. Sophie Goodchild: Night Feed
Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
16 October–8 November 2026
Open Friday–Sunday, 12–6pm 📸 @alban_roinard taken on residency at @porthmeorstudios
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Sophie Goodchild @sophiegoodchild The Kneelers Wool, 190 × 350 cm Part of the exhibition Night Feed at Haarlem Artspace, a new body of felted works developed during Sophie Goodchild’s residency at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall. The Keelers took its starting point from Goodchild’s early morning walks along the coastal path from St Ives to Zennor, a repeated pilgrimage through the ancient landscape of West Penwith to visit the medieval church and its celebrated carving of a mermaid. Inside the church, embroidered kneelers bring together devotional imagery, Cornish flora and fauna, and traditions of textile-making. These cushions inspired the work’s enlarged, divided format. The split-screen composition allows multiple images and experiences to coexist across a panoramic surface, reflecting the expansive landscape through which Goodchild walked. The mermaid legend and traditions of local craft intersect with her exploration of pregnancy, as bodily cycles echo the shifting weather, tides and seasons of the Atlantic coast. In contrast to the speed of contemporary image-making, The Kneelers develops through the slow, tactile process of layering and positioning wool before fusing the fibres through friction and water. As the material contracts and shifts, the intended arrangement is subtly warped, introducing an element of unpredictability into the composition. The resulting interplay of colour, texture and imagery creates a sense of visual disorientation, echoing the experience of navigating a vast, changing landscape. Just as tides continually reshape the coastline, the process of making transforms the image itself. Sophie Goodchild: Night Feed 16 October – 8 November 2026 Haarlem Artspace The Red Lion, Market Place Wirksworth, Derbyshire, DE4 4ET Open Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm #SophieGoodchild #NightFeed #HaarlemArtspace 📸 @willslater53
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A big thank you to everyone who came along to the private view of Sophie Goodchild: Night Feed on Friday night. It was such a positive evening, and lovely to see so many people come together to celebrate Sophie and her work. A special thank you to Sophie’s children for providing the entertainment! ❤️ If you didn’t make it last night, the exhibition is now open and we’d love to see you. Sophie Goodchild: Night Feed
16 October – 8 November
Friday–Sunday, 12–6pm Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion, Market Place, Wirksworth DE4 4ET 📸 @willslater53 #HaarlemArtspace #SophieGoodchild #NightFeed
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OPENING TONIGHT | SOPHIE GOODCHILD: NIGHT FEED 👉 In Haarlem Artspace gallery above the pub from 6pm... Repost @kristiandaygallery: Tonight we open Night Feed, a new body of felted works by Nottingham based artist Sophie Goodchild, developed during her residency at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall. Shaped by the Atlantic, the geology of the coastline of West Penwith and the experience of pregnancy, the works explore the relationship between body and landscape, containment and expansion, and the cycles of care and transformation. Working with wool, water, pressure and repetition, Goodchild creates richly layered surfaces that sit somewhere between painting and textile, image and object. The works bring together the expansive and the intimate, holding traces of the landscape and the physical experience of making. The exhibition also marks a particularly special moment for Sophie, whose daughter has since arrived. Huge congratulations to Sophie and her family. Join us tonight from 6pm at Haarlem Artspace to celebrate the opening of Night Feed. We look forward to seeing you there. #SophieGoodchild #NightFeed #HaarlemArtspace #ContemporaryArt
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OPENING TONIGHT | SOPHIE GOODCHILD: NIGHT FEED Tonight we open Night Feed, a new body of felted works by Nottingham based artist Sophie Goodchild, developed during her residency at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall. Shaped by the Atlantic, the geology of the coastline of West Penwith and the experience of pregnancy, the works explore the relationship between body and landscape, containment and expansion, and the cycles of care and transformation. Working with wool, water, pressure and repetition, Goodchild creates richly layered surfaces that sit somewhere between painting and textile, image and object. The works bring together the expansive and the intimate, holding traces of the landscape and the physical experience of making. The exhibition also marks a particularly special moment for Sophie, whose daughter has since arrived. Huge congratulations to Sophie and her family. Join us tonight from 6pm at Haarlem Artspace to celebrate the opening of Night Feed. We look forward to seeing you there. #SophieGoodchild #NightFeed #HaarlemArtspace #ContemporaryArt
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Last week Kate and I roasted chestnuts while waiting for sticka to alchemise into charcoal on the open fire. Now I have this lovely bundle to bring to my workshops this Oct/Nov. The trees are beginning to reveal their structures again, I love winter trees, great to sketch. Contact me to book a place on either of these workshops to create with this expressive natural art medium. #charcoalsketching #makingcharcoal #artsderbyshire #derbyshirelife #artworkshops
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CULTIVATOR — ARTIST DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS A big thank you to everyone who came along to our first Cultivator session. It was great to bring artists together for conversation, critical exchange and peer connection, and we’re looking forward to building on that first session. Our next session takes place on Wednesday 21 October, from 7pm at Haarlem Artspace, led by Abbie Canning. Cultivator is Haarlem Artspace’s artist development programme, bringing artists together to share work, test ideas and learn from one another through group critique, discussion and constructive feedback. Whether you’re working on something new, developing an idea or looking for fresh perspectives on your practice, the sessions offer space to reflect, ask questions and explore new directions. Alongside the group critiques, Cultivator will create opportunities to exchange skills, knowledge and experience, encounter different approaches to making, and build connections with artists at different stages of their practice. The aim is to develop a supportive community where open conversation can help artists move their work forward. Interested in joining us on 21 October or for future sessions? Follow the link in our bio to register your interest. #Cultivator #ArtistDevelopment #HaarlemArtspace
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ANNOUNCING SOPHIE GOODCHILD: NIGHT FEED Nottingham based artist Sophie Goodchild’s new exhibition Night Feed brings together a new body of felted works developed during her residency at Porthmeor Studios @porthmeorstudios in St Ives, Cornwall. Working from Studio 5 with the Atlantic directly behind her, Goodchild developed the works through sustained encounters with the coastline — walking, swimming and observing the changing landscape. The experience of pregnancy and the physical transformation of her body became closely intertwined with the environment around her. Using wool, water, soap, pressure and repetition, Goodchild transforms loose fibres into dense, layered surfaces. The geology of West Penwith — granite fissures, strata, folds and fractures — became part of the visual language of the work, alongside recurring forms of eggs, vessels, shells, caverns and openings. The works move between containment and confinement, body and landscape, image and object. They are not representations of either, but emerge through a process in which the two continually overlap. The title Night Feed evokes an intimate act of care, but also the repetitive rhythms of the body: tide, pregnancy, labour, feeding and making. PRIVATE VIEW
Friday 16 October
6—9pm 16 October—8 November
Friday—Sunday, 12—6pm Haarlem Artspace
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth DE4 4E @sophiegoodchild
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Castles, 2026 Charcoal on newsprint. Perennial, shown at Haarlem Artspace alongside over 100 artists who make up the growing creative community around the gallery. Huge thanks to @haarlemartspace, Kris, Sarah, and all that put together this great exhibition, @lime_gallery_nottingham_ for the framing, and @willslater53 for the photos!
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ᴘᴇʀᴇɴɴɪᴀʟ A little glimpse of Perennial at Haarlem Artspace. Inspiring to see so many different artists' work, each presenting their own unique way of seeing the world; all held together in one space. Today is the final day, open until 7pm ❤️ @haarlemartspace
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WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE AN EXHIBITION! This autumn, SEEDLINGS is becoming an exhibition project! From September to November, our young artists aged 4–11 will take part in three special SEEDLINGS workshops, creating work that will come together in a group exhibition at Haarlem Artspace Gallery. Each workshop will explore a different idea and way of making — from birds and giant plants to shapes, patterns and printing. Children will have the freedom to experiment, make their own choices and develop their ideas, with gentle support and starting points for younger artists. We want to see what happens when lots of different young imaginations come together. THE WORKSHOPS 26 SEPTEMBER — BIRDS
Draw, design and imagine your own extraordinary birds. 24 OCTOBER — GIANT TREES & FLOWERS
Think big and paint boldly as we create enormous plants from cardboard. 14 NOVEMBER — STAMPING
Experiment with shapes, colour, repetition and pattern to create printed pictures. Everything made across the three sessions will become part of the SEEDLINGS exhibition, on display at Haarlem Artspace Gallery from 27 NOVEMBER–6 DECEMBER. And then, on 7 DECEMBER, we’ll celebrate with a special SEEDLINGS Christmas Party at the gallery — our young artists’ very own private view. A chance for the children and their families to see the exhibition together, celebrate their work and mark the end of our autumn project. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND TO BOOK YOUR PLACE HEAD TO THE LINK IN OUR BIO
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