Dryden Goodwin: Reveal

Dryden Goodwin is a London-based artist who has taken part in numerous film and video festivals and group exhibitions such as The Cathedral, Baltic, Reality Check, a British Council touring exhibition, Video Positive at Tate Gallery Liverpool and Video Cult/ures, ZKM, Germany. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Tate Britain, Stephen Friedman Gallery and Manchester City Art Gallery in the UK and Galerie Frahm in Copenhagen.

Reveal was commissioned by Picture This and South West Screen as the first in the series of projects entitled Historic Sites in which artists are asked to produce and exhibit new works in response to archives, buildings and sites. The project was funded by the Arts Council National Touring Programme.

Reveal consists of three elements, a single screen video projection with accompanying soundtrack and a series of drawings. The video image focuses on the paper and the evolution of each portrait from the fixed viewpoint of a small camera device above a drawing board. Images unfurl like photographic exposures and revive the brief relationships Goodwin forms with strangers he approaches in public places. The video discloses the decision process and accumulation of marks for each drawing, as well as the incremental exchange between ‘sitter’ and ‘artist’.

Exhibition:
5 April – 4 May 2003, Lacock Abbey Cloisters, Lacock, Nr. Chippenham, Wiltshire

24 April 2003, Royal College of Art, London

25 February 2004, Commotion at St George's Bristol

14 April 2004, Island Art Film and Video Festival, London

29 July 2004, Margate Rocks, Kent