Callum
Eaton

Callum Eaton
Mar 2025 - May 2025
/ Past resident
Callum Eaton (b. 1997) lives and works in London. He completed his undergraduate study in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2019. Working with a photorealistic precision, Eaton portrays reality so convincingly that a visitor once tried to use his painted ATM. This playful deception recalls the ancient contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasius, where a painted curtain fooled even a master artist. Eaton expands his focus on overlooked urban fixtures, payphones, vending machines, and elevators, rendered with trompe-l'oeil mastery. These objects, once functional, now stand as relics of consumerism and digital acceleration, their hyperreal surfaces questioning the boundary between reality and simulation. Like Jan van Eyck's hidden reflection or Clara Peeters' self-portraits, Eaton embeds himself in his work, blurring the line between artist, subject, and object in a world increasingly defined by illusion.
"Living in New York has always been something I've aimed towards. I've been lucky enough to visit a few times, but never for long enough. Now, having the chance to truly immerse myself in the city's rhythm, I'm excited to get lost in its streets, wander without a map, and stumble into unexpected ideas and inspirations. As someone coming from the outside, I know that what others might see as ordinary will catch my eye in entirely new ways."
Callum Eaton
Callum Eaton

Callum Eaton
Mar 2025 - May 2025
/ Past resident
Callum Eaton (b. 1997) lives and works in London. He completed his undergraduate study in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2019. Working with a photorealistic precision, Eaton portrays reality so convincingly that a visitor once tried to use his painted ATM. This playful deception recalls the ancient contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasius, where a painted curtain fooled even a master artist. Eaton expands his focus on overlooked urban fixtures, payphones, vending machines, and elevators, rendered with trompe-l'oeil mastery. These objects, once functional, now stand as relics of consumerism and digital acceleration, their hyperreal surfaces questioning the boundary between reality and simulation. Like Jan van Eyck's hidden reflection or Clara Peeters' self-portraits, Eaton embeds himself in his work, blurring the line between artist, subject, and object in a world increasingly defined by illusion.
"Living in New York has always been something I've aimed towards. I've been lucky enough to visit a few times, but never for long enough. Now, having the chance to truly immerse myself in the city's rhythm, I'm excited to get lost in its streets, wander without a map, and stumble into unexpected ideas and inspirations. As someone coming from the outside, I know that what others might see as ordinary will catch my eye in entirely new ways."
Callum Eaton
Callum
Eaton

Callum Eaton
Mar 2025 - May 2025
/ Past resident
Callum Eaton (b. 1997) lives and works in London. He completed his undergraduate study in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2019. Working with a photorealistic precision, Eaton portrays reality so convincingly that a visitor once tried to use his painted ATM. This playful deception recalls the ancient contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasius, where a painted curtain fooled even a master artist. Eaton expands his focus on overlooked urban fixtures, payphones, vending machines, and elevators, rendered with trompe-l'oeil mastery. These objects, once functional, now stand as relics of consumerism and digital acceleration, their hyperreal surfaces questioning the boundary between reality and simulation. Like Jan van Eyck's hidden reflection or Clara Peeters' self-portraits, Eaton embeds himself in his work, blurring the line between artist, subject, and object in a world increasingly defined by illusion.
"Living in New York has always been something I've aimed towards. I've been lucky enough to visit a few times, but never for long enough. Now, having the chance to truly immerse myself in the city's rhythm, I'm excited to get lost in its streets, wander without a map, and stumble into unexpected ideas and inspirations. As someone coming from the outside, I know that what others might see as ordinary will catch my eye in entirely new ways."



