Dryden Goodwin (born in 1971) based in London, is a British artist known for his intricate drawings, often in combination with photography and live action video; he creates films, gallery installations, projects in public space, etchings, works on-line and soundtracks.
Biography and themes
Goodwin was born in Bournemouth. Central to Goodwin's practice is a fascination with drawing. He is engaged with time as well as line, and with the sculptural potential of two-dimensional images. Other concerns in his practice are the city, ideas of public and private, voyeurism, desire and emotional distance and proximity.
“…Dryden Goodwin’s art has been defined by an increasingly rich dialogue between drawing, photography and film. In this work he has consistently focused on the human figure and the portrait form, the resulting work offering a speculative vision that considers the process of looking and representing, both in relation to what is experienced and what is seen.
That this speculation is always fluid, that no one act of representation, no one point of description, can ever be finally resolved in time, is also the idea which drives the shifting relationships between different media and the layered nature of Goodwin’s work. Often grounded in an experience of the city, Goodwin wrestles with the continually changing nature of our contact with the people around us, both the well known – family and friends – and the anonymous, the strangers we pass on the street.
His work marks an intense curiosity, a desire to know, and yet it is always alive with ambiguities about what the act of making work might reveal or obscure.” – David Chandler (from his introduction to Cast, a monograph published by Steidl and Photoworks)
Solo exhibitions and projects
SOLO X 9: Artists in Clerkenwell, Berry House, London 1998.
Dryden Goodwin - Recent Video Work, Mid-Pennine Arts, Lancashire 1999.
Dryden Goodwin - New Work, Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999.
Dryden Goodwin - Wait,Drawn to Know, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2000.
Closer, Art Now commission, Tate Britain, London 2002.
Reveal, Lacock Abbey Wiltshire, commissioned by Picture This and South West Screen 2003.
Canary Wharf Screen, Closer part of Film and Video Umbrella's programme The City in the City 2012.
Canary Wharf Screen, Fight part of Animate Project's programme Moving Up 2012.
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, exhibited on The Wall at The Photographers’ Gallery, London 2012.
Courtship of the Peoples - Simon Oldfield Gallery, London 2012.
Poetry of Motion, National Portrait Gallery, London 2012.
Exquisite Forest, Tate Modern, featured artist, contributing a 'seed' animation. Part of a collaborative drawing project conceived by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, and produced by Google and Tate 2012.
The World in London, Photographers’ Gallery, offsite exhibition, Victoria Park, coinciding with London Olympics and Paralympic Games 2012.
Everything Flows: The Art of Being in the Zone, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella 2012.
Canary Wharf Screen, Canary Wharf Underground Station, selected films from Linear 2013
Poster Art 150: London Underground's Greatest Designs, London Transport Museum, animated poster from Linear one of 150 selected from the 3300 Underground-specific posters from the London Underground's 150-year history 2013.
Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s until Today, curated by The Photographers’ Gallery, London - touring China 2015–2016.
Up/Down, Holden Gallery, Manchester 2016.
Stories in the Dark, curated by Ben Judd for the Whitstable Biennale, exhibited at the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury 2016.
