In 'Vital Organ', a funnel is constructed from a tapestry showing a map of the earth. Professor Lesley Millar described it as ‘a heart from which issues a warp of life giving blood, flowing in a metaphorical cycle through and between birth, consummation and death’ and said that this demonstrated Goldsmith’s ‘underlying, and on-going, preoccupation with the essential fluids of our being – water and blood. Essential to existence, but if out of their natural place, their natural order in nature, out of containment, these fluids become oppressive and deadly.’ ('Reveal' exhibition catalogue, 2005; Nottingham City Museums and Galleries) Goldsmith is a leading artist in the field on contemporary textiles, and winner of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize: Textiles in 2002.