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Boyle Family
Addison Crescent Study (London Series), 1969 by Boyle Family (c) Mark Boyle
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
25 September 2003
The Boyle Family exhibition is a unique chance to see an extensive retrospective of this extraordinary family’s work. They are renowned for their spectacular facsimiles of samples of ground, plots that have been selected by throwing darts at a map of the world, and reproduced using undisclosed techniques. Sand, mud, tiles, pavement, grass and even snow appear suspended on the walls of the gallery.
The exhibition effectively documents their 40-year fascination with the surface of the earth and features the map that started it all. It also includes their microscopic explorations of the surface of Mark Boyle’s body and Mark and Joan Hills’ early experiments in performance visuals – once produced live for Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix and shown here on video.
We will be joined in the Boyle Family exhibition by Edinburgh writer and lecturer Bill Hare. Bill has been engaged in an on-going dialogue with the Boyles for years, and is author of one of the essays in the exhibition catalogue.
The show is literally amazing, and the discussion with Bill is guaranteed to be lively. It promises to be a great start to our autumn programme.