Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK – The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is proud to present the work of Rachel Goodyear in a new exhibition created for the Bothy Gallery, featuring commissioned works alongside recent drawings. Goodyear’s extraordinary drawings have rapidly attracted award nominations, public and private collectors, and critical acclaim. The compelling cast of characters she has created inhabit a strange and complex world of contradictions, existing somewhere between the macabre and mundane. Exploring themes of fear, desire, vulnerability and isolation, Goodyear invites the viewer into a dark place where human psychologies and animal behaviour collide and merge. Just like the mythological trickster the drawings are slipping through holes and crossing into unfamiliar territory… fragile, delicate, yet defiant and tricky… accompanied by hand drawn animations featuring characters trapped in repetition. “Rachel Goodyear at the Bothy Gallery” is on view at the park through January 3rd 2012.