Born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Eddy Eustache (1998) moved to Paris in 2018 where he started learning the fundamentals of art and design. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2022 and MA in painting at the Frank Mohr institute in Groningen in 2024, he moved to Antwerp, where he now works and resides whilst developing his modelling career in parallel.

Eddy Eustache’s painting process stem from a deeply curious and observant attitude towards the world, human beings and their behavior. They serve not only to document moments of everyday life, but also to provide a dynamic and constant terrain for the artist’s understanding of his own life as a member of different communities. He believes that complex phenomena and feelings such as memory, idealizations, love or even grief are best expressed and communicated through material research, and more specifically through painting. Thus, the artist uses a range of traditional techniques and materials such as oil and acrylic paint, but also more recent techniques such as airbrushing, depending on what needs to be expressed.
Mainly inspired by his friends and family, Eustache’s process generally begins with documentation and observation through photography and/or drawing, which leads to an intuitive search for materials directly on canvas. Each painting could be defined as a window onto scenes of banal drama, with a keen sense of theatricality achieved through the use of sharp contrasts in light and texture, variations in intensity of brushstrokes and intimate framing. The anonymity of the characters is an attempt to achieve a more universal sense of relativity on the part of the viewer, diverting attention from personal identities to a sense of physical understanding and self-realization.