Jane Boyd facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Jane Boyd
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| Born | 20 June 1953 London, UK
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| Education | Camberwell College of Arts, University of London |
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Jane Boyd (born 20 June 1953) is a British artist. She is famous for her art that uses light and her drawings. Her work has been shown all over the world since 1986.
Jane was the first woman to receive a special award called 'Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts' from Trinity College, Cambridge. This award lasted for two years (1981–1983). You can find her art in famous places like the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Gibberd Gallery in Harlow, and the British Museum.
Jane Boyd's Art Career
In 1981, Jane won a big art competition called 'The Shell Waterloo Painting'. Shell UK asked her to create a huge painting, 3 meters tall and 10 meters wide! It was shown above the South Bank exit of London Waterloo station. The BBC filmed her making this large painting, which was called Generation of Alternatives.
That same year, she showed her work in an exhibition called Summer Show 1 at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Other artists like Andy Goldsworthy were also part of this show.
Until 1990, Jane focused on colour field painting. This is a style of painting where artists use large areas of flat color. But then, she wanted to explore ideas about time, memory, and how we think. She needed a new way to show these ideas. So, she started using light instead of paint. For her drawings, she began using charcoal dust.
Jane started a series of art pieces called Water Course i–iii in 1993. For these, she used plaster dust, mirrors, and projected light. Her art installations began to experiment with how light bends (refraction) and bounces (reflection). In 1995, Jane had her own show called To the Warder of Things Present in the Netherlands.
In 1999, she showed her work Out of Bounds at the British School at Rome. That year, she also exhibited It was Today in a group show called No Added Sugar. She also showed Gathering Worlds in another exhibition. Jane created a special art piece for the Pantheon, Rome in May 1999, called Chancing the Circle.
An example of how she uses natural light and mirrors is her work Perfect Stranger (2000). This piece looks at how a place feels at a certain moment, focusing on the shapes and spaces of a molded ceiling. In 2004, Jane exhibited with Tessa Garland in a group show called Seeing Things at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall.
Jane's solo exhibitions, like Living Memory (1988) in Australia and Grounded in Time (1989) in the UK, featured large drawings. Her work Water Haulage iii (1991) was chosen for the 10th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale.
After being an artist-in-residence at the Warburg Institute, University of London, Jane showed two works: Double Volume (2001) and Palindrome (2001). Palindrome was her own version of a famous painting called Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez.
In 2006, Jane returned to the University of London with a special award from the Leverhulme Trust. She created a new major light art installation called Concrete Liaisons (2006) for the outside of Senate House Tower in London. In 2011, she received another award, becoming a Brown Foundation Fellow at Dora Maar House in France. Jane's art installation Vacant Possession (2011) was placed on the ground floor of the former home of the famous photographer Dora Maar.
Awards and Recognitions
- 2011: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- 2011: Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House
- 2006: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
- 2001: Leverhulme Trust Artist-in-Residence at The Warburg Institute, University of London
- 1999: Abbey Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome
- 1981–83: Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1981: Shell Waterloo Painting 1981, commissioned by Shell UK
- 1978: ACGB Arts Council Fine Arts Award in Painting
Important Artworks
- Generation of Alternatives (Shell Waterloo Painting, 1981)
- Out of Bounds (British School at Rome, 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)
Where to See Her Art
You can find Jane Boyd's art in these 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 – Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council
- 1993 – Prints and Drawings Collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- 1981 – Gibberd Gallery – run by Harlow art trust (HAT) since 2011
