BEN GOODMAN

National Collections

  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  • CAFA, Beijing, China
  • MMU, Manchester, UK
  • HMP, Harbing, China
  • Ashmolean Museum / Golsoncott Foundation, UK

Publications

  • 2025. Multiples 65 [article]. The Ink That Glows
  • 2025. Printmaking Today [article]. Material Memisis
  • 2023. Multiples 58 [article]. Blurred Lines
  • 2023. IMPACT Printmaking Journal [article]. Moonlight
  • 2020. The Centre for Fine Print Research Celebrates the Resilience of Creative Practitioners: Shed Talk.
  • 2020. SWE Centenary Catalogue [article]. The Next Generation
  • 2019. Multiples 41 [article]. Moon
  • 2017. Multiples [article]. A New Member Introduces Himself
  • 2017. Pressing Matters issue 1 [article]. Infinite Reduction
  • 2017. Pressing Matters issue 1 [article]. Something Deeply Human
  • 2014. Multiples [cover artwork]
  • 2013, Multiples [article]. Mill Hill Press
  • 2013. Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari [cover artwork]
  • 2012. Multiples May [article]. Rawlinson Bequest

British artist and printmaker, Ben Goodman, is best known for his use of traditional wood engraving to create intricate and powerful portraits. Blending oil painting and printmaking techniques, he uses engraving to build up multi-layered prints which resemble miniature paintings. The result is a unique style and approach, which creates subtle, textured and intimate contemporary prints.

His work is inspired by the beauty and nuance of the human form and its variety of shape, colour, and texture. He takes influence from 800 years of European painting and printmaking. From mediæval panel painters, to contemporary printmakers and painters.

Goodman’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, and his prints are held in various National Collections, including the V&A (UK), MMU (UK), CAFA (China) and HMP (China). He is the youngest of his generation to become an elected member of The Society of Wood Engravers, and was awarded the prestigious Rachel Reckitt Prize in 2023 and 2025.

He is a Senior Technician at UWE (Bristol) where he teaches engraving and relief printmaking. And co-edited the journal Multiples between 2021–2025.