CHRISTIE GOODWIN
Christie Goodwin is a British photographer with a career that spans over 35 years. She first picked up the camera at the age of 12. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in art photography, she initially shot fashion assignments but soon got restless and left the fashion world behind her.
After getting married and starting a family, she decided to return to what she had studied. For a good decade, she shot mainly fine art projects and held regular exhibitions to showcase her work. At the turn of the century Christie took on regular assignments to shoot political news as an editorial photographer for wire agencies.
It wasn’t until 2005 when she was commissioned to shoot a live performance that she found her true calling. After that first assignment, she hung up her editorial hat and became a full-time music and entertainment photographer. Today Christie is in high demand as a tour and portrait photographer. She has worked for Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, One Direction, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart and other top recording artists. Christie’s work appears on CDs, DVDs and tour merchandise, and in international publications, books and exhibitions. Fast, creative and a little bit crazy, Christie is known and respected for always getting the shot and for her no-nonsense approach when connecting with the artist.
When not on the road in a tour bus, Christie is at home in London, where she regularly shoots as official photographer for the Royal Albert Hall. She also shoots covers for best-selling crime novels.
Christie hates free time, unless she can spend it in France . . . preferably with a camera. She can be found on both instagram and twitter, @christiegoodwin.
JOHN SHEERAN
John Sheeran is the father of Ed Sheeran. He has worked for over 35 years in the arts, as a curator, exhibition organizer and lecturer.
John worked as a museum curator during the 1980s, including seven years as curator of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. At Dulwich, he was responsible for a world famous collection of Old Master paintings and a Sir John Soane architectural masterpiece. He also established the gallery’s first exhibition and education programmes.
In 1990, John left museums to set up the art consultancy Sheeran Lock with his wife Imogen. Over the next 20 years, they organized national and international art exhibitions and art education projects. In 1998, John curated Travels with the Prince at Hampton Court Palace, which celebrated Prince Charles’s 50th birthday and featured his private art collection from his country home, Highgrove. In 2000, John curated Our World in the Year 2000, the United Nations’ millennium exhibition. This showed paintings by 250 artists from around the world. It was held at UN Headquarters in New York and opened by then UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.
During his time at Sheeran Lock, John ran a consultancy service for professional artists, advising many painters, sculptors and printmakers on their career development and direction. He also organized innovative art education projects in schools throughout the UK, including Talking Pictures and Pride of Place. In 2006, he curated Young Brits at Art at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the UK’s Commission for Racial Equality.
In 2008, John began to give art lectures in Suffolk, where he lives. His first series, Discover the Great Painters, comprised 80 lectures on Western European artists from the 13th century to the present. Later series included Great Cities of Art and Masterpiece.
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