Found on the lawn at FOS is the finest concours d'elegance in the world, where the most beautiful cars are presented
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
4 doors in the lodge were rescued from salvage and expertly split to ensure they meet modern fire standards before being fitted.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
Nick Heidfelds 1999 (41.6s) hillclimb record was beaten after Max Chilton in his McMurtry Spéirling fan car tore it to shreds at 39.08s in 2022!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Fearless, radical and decades ahead of his peers, 20th-century British artist David Bomberg never received the acclaim he deserved during his lifetime. But as a new show at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery reveals, he left a powerful visual legacy.
Words by Oliver Bennett
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Now feted as one of the best British painters of the last century, David Bomberg – despite possessing enormous talent – had a difficult life. Considered too avant-garde at the beginning of his career and too conservative at the end, he had a lifelong habit of failing the fashion test.
But a new exhibition, “Bomberg” at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery, shows that he fully deserves his posthumous recognition. “Bomberg’s reputation has continued to grow,” says Rachel Dickson, curator at the Ben Uri Gallery, which organised the exhibition. “Despite scandalous critical neglect in his own lifetime, he’s now recognised as a leading 20th-century British artist: a unique, independent vision who radically altered our understanding of landscape and figurative painting.”
Born in Birmingham to Jewish parents from Poland, Bomberg moved to the turn-of-the-century East End of London and became part of the thriving émigré scene. Full of early promise, he began as a prodigy at Walter Sickert’s life-drawing classes at the Westminster School of Art, a crucible for the Camden Town Group, which painted contemporary London realistically, à la Manet.
He then went to the Slade School of Art, alongside fellow rising stars Mark Gertler, William Roberts, CRW Nevinson and Dora Carrington, but was expelled, supposedly for being too ahead of his time. Certainly, his geometric and angular works were in tune with imported ideas like Cubism and Italian Futurism, with the city seen as a vast mechanical ballet: see Ju-Jitsu (c. 1913) and The Mud Bath of 1914.
Despite a friendship with artistic gadabout Wyndham Lewis, Bomberg refused to join the UK’s own avant-garde art movement, the Vorticists. “Bomberg just wasn’t that clubbable,” says Jamie Anderson of London gallery Waterhouse & Dodd, also exhibiting the artist this autumn. “He could be difficult.”
World War I called, and Bomberg returned to the UK changed and chastened. Rather than the machine-age abstractions of the past, he began to paint landscapes and portraits, going to Palestine in 1924 to pursue his goal of finding the “spirit in the mass” – a search for the essence of form – and then to Spain in 1929-35.
By now reasonably well known (he was commissioned as a war artist during World War II, with mixed results), Bomberg’s most fertile period came in 1945, when he taught at Borough Polytechnic. It wasn’t a prestigious post, but he lured a remarkable group of artists, including Dennis Creffield, Leon Kosso and Frank Auerbach, who described Bomberg as “original, stubborn, radical”. Known as the “Borough Group”, they helped renew Bomberg’s reputation as an incubator of talent. “He was a profoundly influential teacher who inspired a generation of painters, creating a powerful visual legacy,” says Dickson.
In 1954, Bomberg left once again for Spain with the idea, says Anderson, of setting up “a kind of art school”. It didn’t happen, and he died in 1957. There’s now a poignant blue plaque gracing his home in Ronda, Andalucia.
Underestimated and misunderstood, Bomberg did not have the sunniest of natures, as might be deduced from his brooding images. “When his mood went dark, his oils dried up,” says Anderson. “He felt let down and neglected, even bitter.” Perhaps with good reason: Bomberg had given his life to art, but, as Anderson says, by the 1950s and ’60s his style had “become toxic – by then it was all about Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism”.
Bomberg became a footnote. But in the 1990s, curators and critics started to “join the dots”, as Anderson puts it. “They recognised that he was a fantastic draughtsman, and a great painter.” At the same time, British 20th-century art was reassessed, with Bomberg considered a pivotal figure.
Market vindication came in 2015 when his Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem (1925) sold for £1,224,900 at Christie’s, and last year it emerged that the late David Bowie owned 12 Bombergs. But perhaps the highest Bomberg accolade is the most prosaic: that a student halls of residence at London South Bank University – once humble Borough Polytechnic – is now named David Bomberg House. That’s recognition.
“Bomberg”, curated by Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, is at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 4 February 2018. pallant.org.uk
“David Bomberg: Paintings and drawings from a private collection”, 1-24 November, waterhousedodd.com
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Winter 2018 issue
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