Artists commissioned to record Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II named by UK Parliament

Parliament has now announced the names of the six UK artists who are currently producing works for the Parliamentary Art Collection.

Three artists were selected by the Lord Speaker's Advisory Panel on Works of Art (House of Lords) and three by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art (House of Commons).

The artists carried out short residencies based at a number of locations within the Parliamentary Estate, using a variety of mediums, from 10-21st September 2022.

The artists are:

• Tina Crawford
• Eleanor Crook
• Dryden Goodwin
• Lachlan Goudie
• Julia Midgley
• Caroline Walker

A number of students from London-based art colleges were also invited to sketch the public queues in Victoria Tower Gardens from 15th-17th September 2022. These were drawn from masters programmes at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Drawing School.

Artworks

Following the commission, the six artists returned to Parliament with their proposals. The selected commissions are now underway, with the first completions scheduled for later this year.

Further information

The Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster.

The Collection previously held eleven artworks dating from 1898 recording Lying-in-State occasions. Only three of these works, all relating to the 2002 Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, were commissioned by Parliament (House of Lords). The others were acquired after the event.

Artist Bios

Tina Crawford is an artist who predominantly works in free machine embroidery. She trained at Central St Martins and began working with sewing machines after developing fibromyalgia. In 2019 Tina was listed as one of the top 50 neurodiverse influential women by Women Beyond the Box.

Eleanor Crook is a sculptor with a background in classics and archaeology who trained at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools. She is artist-in-residence at King’s College’s Gordon Museum of Pathology and was at the Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam. Her work is represented in a number of international museum collections including the Hunterian and the Science Museum London.

Dryden Goodwin often combines intense observational drawing with moving image or photography. He exhibits internationally in galleries and museums, and his public art installations include Linear for Art on the Underground and the ongoing air pollution project Breathe. His films include the award-winning Unseen: The Lives of Looking. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he is now a Professor.

Lachlan Goudie studied at Cambridge University and Camberwell College of Art in London.  He has enjoyed a career as an artist, broadcaster, and writer on the history of art.  As a figurative painter he works across a range of materials and genres, and is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil painters.  His work is held in both national and regional collections.

A graphic artist and printmaker specialising in documentary drawing, Julia Midgley studied in Northwich and Manchester Schools of Art & Design. She has undertaken residencies at the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, Liverpool John Moores University, the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and Aintree Racecourse. Her ‘War Art & Surgery’ collaboration with The Royal College of Surgeons recorded the rehabilitation of wounded servicemen and women. Her works are held in national and international museums.

Born in Dunfermline, Caroline Walker graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and obtained an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2009. She is celebrated for her oil paintings that honour the often intimate and hidden lives of women in contemporary life. She is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York; GRIMM, Amsterdam / New York / London; and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.