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 |
