Dryden Goodwin

Dryden Goodwin was born in 1971 and is a British artist, known for his intricate drawings, often in combination with photography,film, large-scale, screen-based installations and soundtracks.

Central to Dryden Goodwin's practice is a fascination with drawing. However, the ways in which he explores this age-old practice are anything but traditional. He is engaged with time as well as line, and with the sculptural potential of two-dimensional images. Other concerns in his art are also strongly contemporary: the city, ideas of public and private, voyeurism, desire and emotional distance.

Recent projects include Linear for Art on the Underground, London, 2010 and a commission for the Who am I? gallery at the Science Museum, London, 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Cast, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden 2009 and Photographer's Gallery, London, 2008; Flight, at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2006 and Sustained Endeavour: Portrait of Sir Steve Redgrave, National Portriat Gallery, London, 2006.

Londoners traveling from Southwark and London Bridge tube stations may well be familiar with the images above. As part of TfL’s Art on the Underground initiative artist Dryden Goodwin has been commissioned to draw sixty portraits of individuals working in various roles on the Jubilee line.

Rendered in multiple layers of delicate pencil strokes and scribbles, the blown-up portraits are presented outside the stations on big billboards and on poster sites across the underground network. For a real sense of the project however, you are encouraged to go online where the intimate portraits come alive. Each image is presented as a short animated film that documents the accelerated progression of the drawings, accompanied by fragments of conversation between the artist and sitter that reveal a multitude of personal exchanges and stories. Together the animations and dialogues form an intimate and diverse social portrait of this community of workers.