Mark Boyle (1934 - 2005)
Mark Boyle
Mark Boyle is a Scottish media artist from the British underground.
Since 1985 he and his wife Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia formed a collaborative art group called The Boyle Family. The Boyle family experimented with different techniques and styles. This included performances and events, films and projections, sound recordings, photography, electronic micro-photography, drawing, assemblage, painting, sculpture and installation.
However, their most famous long-term project remains Journey to the Earth's Surface, which they began in 1964 and which is a continuum of strange and interesting works. These paintings-very precise drawn casts, something in between painting and sculpture-are careful recreations of randomly selected sections of the earth's surface using resin and fiberglass, as well as real materials collected from the site under investigation.
Date and place of birt: | 11 may 1934, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
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Date and place of death: | 4 may 2005, London, United Kingdom |
Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Media artist, Photographer, Sculptor |
Genre: | Performance art |
Art style: | Contemporary art, Underground culture |