Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1967.  He has both a BA in Environmental Art and a MFA from Glasgow University and is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.  He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and won the Turner Prize in 2011.  He explains his work as a collapse of nature and architecture and creates atmospheric, large scale, site specific installations, using mainly angles and straight lines. 

 

Boyce collaborated with John Kaldor for Project #18, his largest work so far, called We are shipwrecked and landlocked which was installed in Old Melbourne Gaol between 22 October – 30 November 2008.  The installation draws from the angular flower design that Joël and Jan Martel created for the Exposition des arts décoratifs held in Paris in 1925.  Boyce creates both a screen and 'flowers' by repeating and manipulating the original.

 

We are shipwrecked and landlocked
22 October – 30 November 2008
Old Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne

you can read more about the installation here - http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/project-archive/martin-boyce-2008