Artist : Roy Eastland 
Title : Mum (Photo booth)
Medium : goldpoint and silverpoint on gesso on board
Dimensions : 21 x 15 cm


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"This work is one of a long-term and ongoing series of drawings based on photobooth images of my Mum. The starting point for the drawings in this series are various used and unused photobooth images which I’ve found about the house at various times. It was originally one of a strip of four automatically timed (and in this case miss-timed) snap shots taken in a photobooth (my hunch is that it would have been the photobooth machine which used to be in Woolworths on Margate High Street). These drawings are a kind of meditation on the random traces of human presence-in-moments. The original photobooth images are fixed traces of moments alone, waiting for the automatically timed snapshots. I like that Mum has moved every time the camera took a photo: better posed images would not have recorded those looks that are familiar to me. The hand-writing on my drawing is my copy of her hand-writing. This is another way to include her presence in my drawing. And hand-writing is also a kind of drawing. As with my other metalpoint drawings, this drawing has been repeatedly scratched-away and redrawn. I’m constantly re-drawing these works in the hope of catching sight of something which feels true but which I could not have foreseen. The best I can ever hope for is a glimpse. I think of Drawing as the Art of making traces meaningful; it’s the business of making ghosts.”

Roy Eastland lives and works in Thanet, Kent. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1996. Works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibition including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Drawing Prize (on three occasions), The ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, The Zoo Art Fair, Miami Art Fair, The London Art Fair, The BP Portrait Award, The British Art Fair, The Hunting Art Prizes, Margate Rocks, the Turner Contemporary Open, among others.