Born in the U.K., and now living in Ireland, Godbold studied at Goldsmiths’ College, London (1981-4) and has completed a Ph.D. in fine art and visual culture at the National University of Ireland (2007). In 2005 Godbold was controversially selected to officially document the recent UK parliamentary elections in a series of drawings for the permanent collection of the House of Commons. After a protracted political struggle with the commissioning body, the work and a related publication was eventually released in November 2005.

Selected solo and group exhibitions
2009
Art Statements, Hong Kong. Butler Gallery, Killkenny Castle, Ireland

2008         
Art, Drugs & Prayer. Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irland. The beginnings of modern warfare. Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany. Representations of the natural world, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Germany. Lots of things like this, Apexart, New York, USA. 10,000 to 50. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland. Smoke, Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK.

2007         
The advance of unreason. Hales Gallery, London, UK. The unreliable narrator. Mitchell-Inness & Nash, New York, USA. All in an afternoon, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. The Comic Uncanny, Brent Shaheen Modern and Contemporary, Cleveland, USA.

2006
Everthing is nothing by itself. Pallazo Carlo V. Benevento, Italy. More darkness, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA. The last broadcast before nightfall. Galerie Klüser 2. Munich, Germany. Eretica, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy. BeTEKEN II, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Belgium. Drawings & works on paper. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland.

2005      
The decline of organized religion and the rise, and rise of reality TV. Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium. Once it was a lie, Now it’s the truth… Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irland. Rewind, Nassauischer Kunstverien,Wiesbaden,Germany.

2004      
Reanimation, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland. A Time for Shaking. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland