Versatile sculptor and draughtsman, born and lived in Colchester, Essex, who attended Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1970–4. Group shows included Drawings for All, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, 1984; Eastern Open, King’s Lynn, from 1984; Multi-media Fish Exhibition, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, 1988; 3D 89, National Open Sculpture Exhibition, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, 1989; and Ipswich Open, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 1995. Among his solo shows were Sculpture, The Minories, Colchester, 1986; Mirror Boxes, Trinity Street Studios, Colchester, 1992; and Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 1995. In 2002, Goodey took part in Making the Connection, organised by firstsite, Colchester, and Wolsey Art Gallery, a railways-oriented project for which he produced a striking design taking as his starting point the British Railways poster of pre- and post-war periods.