Mark Boyle
Mark Boyle (11 May 1934 – 4 May 2005) was a Scottish artist born in Glasgow and known for his work in the cultural UK Underground of the 1960s around the Traverse Theatre, and from 1985 exhibited with Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia as Boyle Family. Boyle and Hills created multimedia works in the 1960s under the names Institute of Contemporary Archaeology and The Seminal Laboratory. Although Boyle Family have worked across a wide range of different media (including painting, photography, sculpture, film, projection, sound recordings and drawing), they are perhaps best known for their Earth studies.
Mark Boyle
- Born
- 1934 · Glasgow.
- Died
- 2005 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · photographer · illustrator · artist
- Movements
- contemporary art
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Languages
- English
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Mark Boyle (11 May 1934 – 4 May 2005) was a Scottish artist born in Glasgow and known for his work in the cultural UK Underground of the 1960s around the Traverse Theatre, and from 1985 exhibited with Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia as Boyle Family. Boyle and Hills created multimedia works in the 1960s under the names Institute of Contemporary Archaeology and The Seminal Laboratory. Although Boyle Family have worked across a wide range of different media (including painting, photography, sculpture, film, projection, sound recordings and drawing), they are perhaps best known for their Earth studies.
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Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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University of Glasgow
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Born at Glasgow in 1934, died in London in 2005.
Mark Boyle studied at University of Glasgow. The recorded working language is English. Work by Mark Boyle is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Museum of Modern Art, Hamburger Bahnhof and National Galleries Scotland.
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