Artist - Researcher - Educator

Artist - Researcher - Educator

Dr Jill Goodwin is a Portsmouth-based artist/researcher with a background in education. In recent years she has worked as a consultant, mentor and trainer with arts and educational organisations, as well as with individual artists. Jill was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Research in Inclusion at the University of Southampton from 2020-2023, and Researcher-in-Residence with Oily Cart theatre company from 2020 – 2022.

Jill’s own art work privileges the sensory over the intellectual, making it innately inclusive. Her sensorial aesthetic and focus on atmosphere give rise to spaces that encourage people to find ways to be together without words.

Jill’s deep background experience of working with children and young people in primary and special education settings, her knowledge and approach as an artist and her rigour as an academic were invaluable to our work.
Dr Katie Sweeney
National Director for the Integration of Arts & Creativity in Education, Ireland
Jill has a depth of thinking and total integrity that shone through both her thesis and the Researcher-in-Residence report that she produced for Oily Cart. Both these pieces have provided ‘epiphany’ moments in my own practice and have influenced many in the sector to make more rigorous work.
Ellie Griffiths
Artistic Director, Oily Cart
Jill is my go-to person as a sounding board for my work in sensory theatre. Her knowledge and experience of the challenges faced by young people, specialist schools, and carers of disabled children, combined with her clear-sighted creative vision and intuition, make her an extremely valued mentor to me.
Rhiannon Armstrong
Interdisciplinary Performance Artist
Dr Jill Goodwin’s work has deeply impacted my own understanding and practice … her care, intelligence and readiness to experiment makes her a unique and formidable force in this area of practice.
Jeremy Harrison
Head of MA Actor Musicianship and MA Theatre for Young Audiences programmes, Rose Bruford College
Jill’s ability to bring together her skills as an arts practitioner and a researcher was a wonderful asset in our recent workshop to engage people with profound learning disabilities in self-advocacy. Her PhD thesis was one of the best I’ve read - it left me eager to involve her in the Centre for Research in Inclusion, in writing and research projects, and the results have been great.
Professor Melanie Nind
University of Southampton
Jill’s innate understanding of the power of creative practice to leap barriers, combined with her ability to unflinchingly ask the questions that matter, ensure that whoever she works with has an experience that is meaningful to them. Jill is a continuous source of inspiration to me in my work, and I am confident that she will inspire you too.
Joanna Grace
Sensory Engagement and Inclusion Specialist, Founder of The Sensory Projects

Recent projects

Arts in Education Portal Day
Arts in Education Portal Day
Keynote Presentation
‘Joyride’
‘Joyride’
Oily Cart & Ockham’s Razor
SHLD conference – Community-Building without words
SHLD conference
Community-Building without words

Installations

Golden Tent
Golden Tent
Multi-sensory installations in school
Multi-sensory installations in school
Fine Art Installations
Fine Art Installations

Jill Goodwin

Artist - Researcher - Educator

Portsmouth

E: jillkgoodwin@gmail.com
M: +44 7925 368346

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