The British artist Dryden Goodwin will give an artist's overview of his practice, exploring his different approaches to drawing, working with the camera and making of soundtracks. Themes include intimacy and anonymity, distance and proximity, reflecting on the complexity of connections between people, be they strangers, communities or family and friends. His exploration of expanded notions of portraiture, both of individuals and collectives, has led to a diversity of projects in galleries, museums, cinemas and public space. 

The British artist Dryden Goodwin will give an artist's overview of his practice, exploring his different approaches to drawing, working with the camera and making of soundtracks. Themes include intimacy and anonymity, distance and proximity, reflecting on the complexity of connections between people, be they strangers, communities or family and friends. His exploration of expanded notions of portraiture, both of individuals and collectives, has led to a diversity of projects in galleries, museums, cinemas and public space. 

Dryden Goodwin has made high profile public art commissions including Linear created for Art on the Underground, seen across the London Underground network (2010–12) and his on-going Breathe produced by the arts/science organisation Invisible Dust, engaging with the struggle for clean air justice (2012–24), appearing next to roads across London and the UK and to be shown at the Lahore Biennale 03 in Autumn 2024. He has created award winning film works including Unseen: The Lives of Looking, nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Camerimage, Bydgoszcz (2016) and CPH:DOX Copenhagen (2015). Solo exhibitions include QUAD, Derby (2020); OCAT Xi’an, China (2018); Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich (2015); Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (2009);The Photographers’ Gallery (2008); New Art Gallery Walsall (2004), and Manchester Art Gallery (2003) Tate Britain (2002). Group exhibitions include Wellcome Collection, Tate Modern and the 50th Venice Biennale. Collections include the Tate Collection; MOMA, New York; National Portrait Gallery. Goodwin is a professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.