Artist Dryden Goodwin brings talking heads to the Jubilee line
Getting Paul McCartney through the ticket barrier, the Tube driver who looks like Boudicca reminiscing about driving the old 1930s stock trains and the baby nicknamed ‘Jubilee’ by staff who were present at its unexpected birth at Kingsbury station; these are just some of the true-life stories told by sixty London Underground staff in Linear, artist Dryden Goodwin’s project for the Jubilee Line. Goodwin’s work was created as part of a series of new contemporary art commissions by Art on the Underground for the Jubilee line. The result is a fascinating multimedia project of drawings and short films which can be viewed online at
www.tfl.gov.uk/art from the start of February 2010. A collection of pocket size, highly detailed pencil portraits of station and train staff will be displayed as posters at stations across the Tube network. All sixty portraits will be exhibited together on a billboard outside Southwark station. Artwork from this project will also be on show at London Bridge and Stanmore stations from February.
Artist Dryden Goodwin said: “It’s difficult to connect with people when you’re commuting on the Underground. “We are usually in a hurry – rushing down escalators, waiting on a station platform, focused on getting somewhere else. I wanted to create an archive of portraits that reveals some of the personalities behind the multitude of people who work on the Tube, people who are rarely acknowledged as individuals by members of the public. It’s all about connectivity.”
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