7 November 1989 – Study for “The Scar”

John Goto (1949 - 2023)

Photograph with gouache and mixed media

1992

Share this:

© John Goto

License this image

Start Zooming
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    John Goto was born in Stockport and studied at Berkshire College of Art and St Martins School of Art, London. He worked as a photographer at the British Museum from 1974–77, before winning British Council scholarships to Paris and Prague in 1977 and 1978. Goto taught as a part-time lecturer at Camberwell School of Art, Oxford Polytechnic and the Ruskin School of Art from 1981–87. During the 1990s he taught as a visiting lecturer at various institutions including the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Jerusalem and the University of Perm, Urals, Russia. Goto held several solo exhibitions in Britain, Germany, Spain and Czechoslovakia, and Russia.
  • Explore
    Places
    Subjects
    newspaper, tree, man, woman, nude, scar, field, road
    Materials & Techniques
    mixed media (art material), gouache (as artists material), mixed media (art object), photograph (as object name)
  • Details
    Artist
    John Goto (1949 - 2023)
    Title
    7 November 1989 – Study for “The Scar”
    Date
    1992
    Medium
    Photograph with gouache and mixed media
    Dimensions
    height: 50.20 cm, width: 61.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Jason Rhodes, March 1995
    Inscription
    verso br: John Goto 90/92 [beneath mount]
    GAC number
    16912