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Jane Boyd (born 20 June 1953) is a British artist. She is best known for her work in light-based installation and drawing and has been exhibiting internationally since 1986. Boyd was the first woman to be elected Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, a two-year fellowship (1981–83) awarded by Trinity College, Cambridge. Her work is represented in a number of public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Gibberd Gallery and the British Museum.


Career

Boyd won The Shell Waterloo Painting 1981 prize, a major competitive commission awarded by Shell UK to produce a painting measuring 3 m x 10 m for exhibition above the South Bank exit of London Waterloo station. Filmed by the BBC throughout its progress in the studio and on site, the result was a large canvas entitled ''Generation of Alternatives''. The same year she exhibited in Summer Show 1, along with Andrew Darke, Andy Goldsworthy and Steve Joy at the
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, London. Boyd concentrated on colour field painting until 1990 when ideas concerning the interdependence of time, memory and consciousness demanded a new medium able to express the inherent temporal nature of these concepts. Light itself would replace paint while in the drawings, charcoal dust would become the primary medium. Beginning with the series, ''Water Course i–iii'' (1993) using plaster dust, mirror and projected light, Boyd's installations would experiment with refraction and reflection. In 1995, Boyd exhibited ''To the Warder of Things Present'', a solo exhibition at Stichting de Achterstraat, Hoorn, Netherlands. In 1999 she exhibited ''Out of Bounds'' in May Show at the
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. Also that year, in ''No Added Sugar'', a group show with Kate Davis and Terry Smith curated by Roberto Annecchini at Change Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Boyd exhibited ''It was Today'' and in ''Grottesche'' curated by Domenico Scudero she exhibited ''Gathering Worlds'' at Ex-chiesa di S. Stefano,
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. Boyd's site-specific installation, ''Chancing the Circle'' (1999) was installed in the
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in May 1999. One example of her use of natural light and mirror is ''Perfect Stranger'' (2000), which explores, at a particular moment, the sense of place contained within the surfaces and cavities of a moulded ceiling. Boyd exhibited with Tessa Garland in ''Seeing Things'' (2004), a group show at Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. Boyd's ''Living Memory'' (1988)
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, Australia and ''Grounded in Time'' 1989
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, UK are examples of solo exhibitions which featured large-scale drawing installations. Boyd's work, ''Water Haulage iii'' (1991) was selected for the 10th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale (1991). In conclusion of a Residency at the Warburg Institute, University of London, Boyd exhibited two works ''Double Volume'' (2001) and ''Palindrome'' (2001), a transcription of '' Las Meninas'' (1656) by
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. In 2006 Boyd returned to the University of London as Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow to engage in a new work entitled ''Concrete Liaisons'' (2006), a major light-based installation for the facades of Senate House Tower, Malet Street London. In 2011 she was appointed Brown Foundation Fellow, a fellowship programme administered by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston at Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France. Boyd's installation ''Vacant Possession'' (2011) was sited on the ground floor of former home of surrealist photographer Dora Maar.


Honours and awards

* 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts * 2011 Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes * 2006 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship * 2001 Leverhulme Trust Artist-in-Residence at The Warburg Institute, University of London * 1998 Abbey Rome Fellow at the
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1999 * 1981–83 Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts Trinity College, Cambridge * 1980–81 Shell Waterloo Painting 1981 commissioned by Shell UK * 1978 ACGB Arts Council Fine Arts Award in Painting


Major works

* ''Generation of Alternatives'' (Shell Waterloo Painting, 1981) * ''Out of Bounds'' (
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, 1999) * ''Chancing the Circle'' (British School at Rome, 1999) * ''Palindrome'' ( Warburg Institute, University of London, 2001) * ''Double Volume'' (Warburg Institute, University of London, 2001) * ''Concrete Liaisons'' ( Senate House Tower, London, 2006) * ''Vacant Possession'' ( Dora Maar House, 2011)


Public collections

* 2005 – The New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge * 2004 – British Library, London * 2000 – Prints and Drawings Collection, British Museum, London * 1994 –
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, Lincolnshire County Council * 1993 – Prints and Drawings Collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London * 1981 – Gibberd Gallery – run by Harlow art trust (HAT) since 2011


Publications

* * * * * Jane Boyd, ''Waterways drawings 1990–1992'', forward Felix Villanueva, 1992


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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Jane 1953 births Living people Artists from London Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts Alumni of the University of the Arts London British women artists