Callum Eaton (b. 1997, Bath, UK) lives and works in London. He completed his undergraduate study in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2019. Since his time at Goldsmiths (BA Fine Art, 2019), Callum Eaton has honed a photorealistic precision so convincing 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—glimpsed in a launderette’s glass door or a Photo-Me booth—blurring the line between artist, subject, and object in a world increasingly defined by illusion.