Nicole Goode is a Naarm, Melbourne-based artist working across performance, sculpture, and video. Drawing from queer and feminist frameworks, she employs choreographic strategies to explore the materiality of the body and its entanglement with sculptural forms. These sculptural objects often serve as signifiers of gendered systems, which are destabilised and reconfigured through performance.

 

Grounded in a movement-based approach, her work interrogates how bodies navigate and negotiate public spaces. ​With an enduring interest in slow bodies, Goode uses durational methods to disrupt dominant temporalities and codes of behaviour. She foregrounds instability, collapse, and failure as generative strategies and holds vulnerability as a central concern in her practice.

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Her graduate work Linger was selected for Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Other recent performance installations include Black Forest at HAIR (2025) and Chalk Mouth at Quality (2025) in collaboration with Georgia Naughton, and Linger at Untitled, Mixed Zoning (2025). She has performed in works by Lisa Anderson, Frances Barbe, and Luna Mrzorick Gawler, and was assistant director for the opening performances of We Will Slam You with Our Wings by Joanna Dudley at the Singapore Festival of the Arts (2023) and ACMI & Federation Square (2022).

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Goode holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts (2024) and a Bachelor of Performing Arts from WAAPA (2015).