Mel Gooding is a London-based art critic and curator who has written and edited a number of volumes, including exhibition catalogues that feature the work of artists such as Ceri Richards, Michael Upton, John Hoyland, Frank Bowling, Bruce McLean, Mary Fedden, Gillian Ayres, sculptor F. E. McWilliam, and architect William Alsop, as well as books of general art criticism and other works.