Dryden Goodwin is a British artist, known for his intricate drawings, often in combination with photography, film, large-scale, screen-based installations and soundtracks.
Linear is a series of portraits of individuals with different working roles on the Jubilee line. Goodwin drew 60 pencil portraits
of staff at work, or at moments of pause in their day, and has created
60 films recording the drawings being made. Together they form an
intimate and diverse social portrait of this community of workers. The drawings are displayed on poster sites across the London Underground network. The films can be viewed online offering the opportunity to unlock the creation of each piece.
The critical response included:
"Ordinary faces look back at you from posters at London Underground
stations, drawn in intense black lines, almost like forests of wiring.
There is a hum of repressed energy, as if you were approaching power
lines on a wasteland. There is also a solitude, a silence in the
portraits that reach out, with their eyes, to you the stranger ... and
then you've moved on, carried by the crowd, the connection is
lost...........They're engaged, emotional, hardworking sketches."
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