Dryden Goodwin


Dryden Goodwin is an English artist, mostly known for his series of portraits overlaying drawing with photography. Here I have selected one of his lesser known works, which formed part of a 1999 exhibition at the Site Gallery, Traffic. The piece presents us with a series of film stills, displayed as small transparencies on a light box. The piece builds up its power through the repetition of the cars, through the number used, almost referencing a typology, the work is built up. The way in which the moving image becomes the still, yet still, through its presentation references the cinema again, in a loop of moving/still. This is then repeated in the subject matter, which presents us with a moving subject, frozen still in each frame.