Contemporary art space Goodwood Art Foundation launches in West Sussex Contemporary art space Goodwood Art Foundation launches in West Sussex

A new contemporary art space has opened on the historic Goodwood Estate in West Sussex: The Goodwood Art Foundation.

Focusing on contemporary art, the foundation’s headline exhibition features the works of British artist Rachel Whiteread, the first female artist to win the Turner Prize.

Visitors will be able to see her new work, Down and Up (2024-2025), which is being shown for the first time, as well as a number of other pieces. Alongside sculptures, a photographic series is on display in The Gallery, a rarely exhibited aspect of her work.

The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, CBE, DL, said: “We are taking our commitment to the visual arts to a new level. Goodwood Art Foundation presents the very best of international art in an innovative and engaging way, placing important works of contemporary art in a beautiful, ever-changing natural environment, while also delivering a powerful education programme to inspire all our visitors. I am thrilled to be opening this great new venture, which will form a vital part of Goodwood’s 21st century legacy. Over the last three hundred years, the Dukes of Richmond at Goodwood have collected masterpieces by Canaletto, Reynolds, Romney, Stubbs and Van Dyck. The creation of the Goodwood Art Foundation signals the next chapter in this long and pioneering history of engagement with art.”

Goodwood Art Foundation is set within 70 acres of green space which has been devised by renowned landscape architect Dan Pearson OBE. The design ‘delivers an ever-changing journey through nature and art, based around 24 seasonal moments’.

Similarly, the Foundation’s café, 24, takes its name from this, with the design from Studio Downie Architects ‘in direct response to the woodland setting’.

Alongside Whitehead’s work, you’ll be able to find sculptures in the gardens from Rose Wylie, including Pineapple (2021) and Pale-Pink Pineapple/Bomb (2025), and the late Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi, from his Playscapes series.

Other artists with work on display include Tanzanian-born British artist Lubna Chowdhary, Berlin-based Scottish artist Susan Philipsz, Montserrat-born British artist Veronica Ryan, and New York based artist Amie Siegel.

More information: goodwoodartfoundation.org

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