"Goblin with mushrooms" door David Goode (Sausmarez Manor beeldenroute, 2011)
David Goode (Oxford, October 1966) is a British visual artist.
He went to the Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent and specialized in portraits and figurative art. In 1988, at the age of 21, he began to be a wax artist at Madame Tussauds in London, becoming the youngest wax artist ever employed by Madame Tussauds. Some of his waxes made by Freddie Mercury, Joan Collins, Madonna, Michael Jackson, George Michael, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Yasser Arafat.
In 1994, Goode became a freelance sculptor. He took some private assignments and began to exhibit his own work.
Parts of his goblin collection were introduced at the 1995 Chelsea Flower Show. Since 2004, some of his works have been displayed on the Sausmarez Manor in Guernsey's image route every year.
David Goode lives and works in Oxford.
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