Teddy Godwin
Teddy Godwin
Teddy Godwin, Listen uP, 2025, sound, mixed media, cardboard, plastic and metal. Photography by Tessa Hallmann.
A burnt out drum a tangled head of conduit piping a pier recording from the longest in the longest in the world. In Charles Pears’ Bathing Buoy (1934), these rebellious swimmers are sounding the alarm. Listen uP is a play on a warning system taken from the End of the Pier, the world’s longest.. End of! The burnt out contents might reflect the missed warnings of past fires, crashing boats and burst blood vessels faces. Stand close enough with your ear to the fire, you might just hear the not so distant chimes and the not so subtle disapproval of an entitled bystander wrapped up in some past sense of glory.
Charles Pears, Southend on Sea Bathing Buoy, 1934, lithograph on paper, 120 x 100 cm, Beecroft Art Collection. Photography by Tessa Hallmann.
Biography
Teddy Godwin plays with ideas of the census and seaside culture. With a varied background in landscape architecture and audio programming, they seek an epiphytic relationship with existing structures and materials. The fruition and playback of this work forms expansive understandings of language and place.