Jane Boyd

Contact

email: <jboyd@work.demon.nl>

Research Interest

The Interdependence of Time, Memory and Consciousness
Drawing and communication

Current Studio Research

2007-   Concrete Liaisons - sensing identity within urban London
2003-   Brittle Host - moving through time in glass
2000-Temporal Human Behaviour in Public Places
1998-Attitudes to Mortality in Contemporary Society
1998-Representations of 2D imagery in the reflective surface

Awards and Commissions

2008    Regent's Court Residency in association with University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney
2006    Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
2001    Leverhulme Trust Artist-in-Residence - a nine-month residency at The Warburg Institute, University of London.
2000AHRB Research Award in Creative Arts (one year)
2000"Interventions" - commissioned installation Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
1999London Institute College Research Award
1999Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
1998Abbey Rome Fellow 1999 at the British School at Rome
1995Commissioned Studio Interview Malone Gill Productions for Channel 4
1994"Verbeeldende Nummers" Stichting Wassen Neus Amsterdam
1983Fellowship Travel Grant awarded by Trinity College, Cambridge University
1981Fine Artist to Wolff Olins commissioned by C. H. Tay, Wolff Olins, London
1981Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts - a two-year fellowship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge
1980"Shell Waterloo Painting 1981" one-year painting commission by Shell UK Ltd. for Waterloo Mainline Station, London
1978Arts Council Fine Arts Award in Painting, Arts Council of Great Britain

Collections public

2005    New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge
2000    British Museum, London
1994Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council
1993Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1981Gibberd Gallery, Essex (established 2004)

Exhibitions

2008 "Tijd is Het" Pulchri, The Hague, Netherlands
2006 "Concrete Liaisons" Senate Ho, London University - solo
2006 "Time Lines" Change + Partner Contemporary Art, Rome [proposed] solo
2004 "Seeing Things" Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2004 "Mimosa" SALA 1, Rome
2002 "Heen en Weer" Filmacademie, Amsterdam
2002 "Surplace" Change Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2001 "Palindrome" The Warburg Institute University of London - solo
1999 "Chancing the Circle" installation in the Pantheon, Rome - solo
1999 "No Added Sugar" Change Studio d'Arte Contemporanea,Rome
1999 "May Show" British School at Rome
1999 "Grottesche" Ex-Chiesa di S. Stefano Tivoli, Italy
1996 Galerie Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1995 "To the Warder" Stichting de Achterstraat, Hoorn Netherlands ­ solo
1994 Galerie Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1994-95"Shades of Grey" Ikon Gallery UK - touring show
1993 Morley Gallery, London
1993 East West Contemporary Art, London
1992 "Whitechapel Open Studios", London
1991-92"10th Cleveland (UK) Drawing Biennale" Europe - touring show
1991 "Green Contemporary Art", London
1991 "East End Open Studios", London
1989 Martello Street, London
1989 "Grounded in Time" University of Surrey, Guildford - solo
1988 "Living Memory" Artspace, Sydney - solo
1988 "Untitled" Performance Space, Sydney
1986 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1983 Trinity College, Cambridge - solo
1981 "Summer Show One" Serpentine Gallery, London
1981 "Generation of Alternatives" Waterloo Main Line Station Concourse, London - solo
1976 McMurray Gallery, London
1975 "Lord Carron Prize" South London Gallery

Publications

Jane Boyd Senate House Tower London's First Skyscraper 5,000 words The London Journal 2008 Maney Publications (forthcoming)
Jane Boyd Picture This: Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary c 5,000 words. 2006 The Expository Times, Sage Publications ISSN 0014-5246
Jane Boyd Waterways drawings 1990-1992 (1992)

Co-authored Publications

Jane Boyd and Philip F. Esler Visuality and Biblical Text Interpreting Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary as a Test Case c 60,000 words 30 figs. 2004 Leo S. Olschki Editore Florence ISBN 88 222 5369 8 Vol. 26 in the series "Arte e Archeologia".
Launched 8 December 2004 at the National Galleries of Scotland

Media and Publicity

Senate House Tower London's First Skyscraper by Jane Boyd peer-reviewed article for The London Journal 2008
Christopher Mook Testing a Test Case Art Newspaper No 166 2006
Mindy Nancarrow Visuality and Biblical Text Interpreting Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary as a Test Case by Jane Boyd and Philip F. Esler reviewed 2005 Renaissance Quarterly 58
Julian M. Luxford Visuality and Biblical Text Interpreting Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary as a Test Case by Jane Boyd and Philip F. Esler reviewed October 2005 Studio International
Roberto Annecchini Change + Partner 2001-2005 catalogue (2005) catalogue Change + Partner Contemporary Art
Paul Kelbie Through the Looking Glass (2005) The Independent no.5722
Mariella Frostrup The Green Room (2005) 18 February BBC Radio 2
Allan Laing The Art of Mirrors (2005) The Glasgow Herald web no.2205
Jacopo Benci Responding to Rome (2005) lecture The British Academy
Sebastian Smee Artists invade Academe Art Newspaper No 120 (2001)
Domenico Scudero cura critica, Change Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Catalogo 1999-2000 (2001) Artistic direction Roberto Annecchini translation R. R Rosewarne
Jacopo Benci Responding to Rome (2000) lecture The BritishAcademy
Fabrizio Crisafulli Fine Arts 1998-1999 (1999) The British School at Rome translation Felicity Stud/Scriptum srl: Jacopo Benci
David Buckman The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 (1998, 2002) Art Dictionaires Ltd, Bristol
Wilma Gerlings Elf Jaar Bijzondere Kunst (1996) Stichting de Achterstraat
Felix Villanueva Changing Lenses drawings and installations by Jane Boyd (1995) Herman Molendijk Stichting trans. Sape Mullender
Myfanwy Johns Shades of Grey (1994) Ikon Gallery
Brandon Taylor 10th Cleveland (UK) International Drawing Biennale (1991) Northern Arts Council selector's essay Wolfgang Schmitz; reviews: Art and Artists, Apollo
Hugh O'Donnell 25th Green Contemporary Art (1991)
M. N. M. v. Lieshout Noise removal and segmentation methods in statistical image analysis (1990) MA thesis using data sets from Analysis of subjective and objective perceptions of colour (unpublished) J. Boyd, Prof. L. E. Cram and Dr. N. Brown
Noëlle Janaczewska Untitled (1988) Performance Space, NSW
John McDonald Living Memory (1988) Artspace Gallery, NSW; reviews: Christopher Allen, Sydney Morning Herald (1988)
Charles Spencer Shell Waterloo Painting 1981 by Jane Boyd (1981) Evening Standard, Art Monthly, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph (1981)
Vyv Simpson The Generation of Alternatives (July 1981) BBC One Shell Waterloo Painting commission 1980-81 news feature
Miranda Strickland-Constable Summer Show 1 Serpentine Gallery (1981) Council of England (formerly Arts Council of Great Britain) reviews: Art Monthly, The Guardian

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