I sketch the BTS of making movies.

Since 2022, Greg Hughes has been a UK film and television Supporting Artist, with more than 300 days on camera. He started drawing Crowd Holdings on his third job - a hot school assembly hall in Channel 4’s Bad Education - as a way to pass the time. He hasn’t stopped since.

He draws in holdings, in the catering queue, in the dining truck. Never on set. As a former lawyer, he takes NDAs seriously. Back at home in Oxford, he works in his studio from quick sketches to finished pieces in pen and ink, pencil, watercolour and oil. His subject is everything: the hardware of a film unit, the faces of the crowd, the strange temporary architecture of a marquee holding at 5am.

On most filming days, supporting artists are denied access to their phones. Productions can’t risk leaks. It means the thousands of SAs who help make British film and television have almost no way of recording what their working lives actually look like. Back to Holding exists to capture that absence. For those who have been there, the work is immediate. It returns them to a specific holding room, a particular job, the people they stood beside, the scene they helped create.