Jane Boyd

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jane Boyd
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 20, 1953(1953-06-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Gemini

Jane Boyd Biography

Jane Boyd is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 20, 1953 in England, United Kingdom. Jane Boyd, a British artist, was born 20 June 1953. Her work in light-based installations and drawing is her most prominent. She has been exhibiting internationally since 1986. Boyd was the first woman elected Fellow Commoner of Creative Arts (1981-83) by Trinity College Cambridge. Her work is included in a variety of public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and Gibberd Gallery.

Boyd presented two works, Double Volume (2001), and Palindrome 2001, as part of his Warburg Institute Residency. This was a transcription of Las Meninas (1656), by Diego Velazquez. Boyd was appointed Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the University of London in 2006. She began a new project, Concrete Liaisons (2006). This is a light-based installation that will be used on the façades of Senate House Tower and Malet Street London. She was named Brown Foundation Fellow in 2011, a fellowship program administered by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston at Dora Maar House in Menerbes. Boyd’s installation, Vacant Possession (2011), was installed on the ground floor at Dora Maar’s former residence as a surrealist photographer.

Perfect Stranger (2000) is an example of her use natural light and mirror. It explores at a specific moment the sense of place contained in the cavities and surfaces of a moulded ceiling. Boyd exhibited in Seeing Things (2004) with Tessa Garland, a group exhibition at Newlyn Arts Gallery, Cornwall. Boyd’s Living Memory (1988), Artspace Sydney, Australia, and Grounded in Time 1989 University of Surrey Guildford (UK) are two examples of solo exhibitions that featured large-scale drawing installations. Boyd’s Water Haulage iii (1991), was chosen for the 10th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale (1991).

Jane Boyd Net Worth

Jane Boyd is one of the richest Artist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jane Boyd 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Boyd was awarded The Shell Waterloo Painting81 prize by Shell UK. This major competition commission allowed Shell UK to create a painting measuring 3m x 10m that would be displayed above the South Bank exit from London Waterloo station. The BBC filmed the entire process in the studio and on-site. The result was called Generation of Alternatives. She exhibited at Summer Show 1 in the same year, along with Andy Goldsworthy, Andrew Darke and Steve Joy, at London’s Serpentine Gallery. Boyd was a color field painter until 1990, when she began to explore ideas about the interdependence between time, memory and consciousness. Boyd then turned her attention to a new medium that could express the temporal nature of these ideas. In the drawings, light would replace paint and charcoal dust would be the primary medium.

1999 was the year she exhibited Out of Bounds at the British School in Rome. Boyd also exhibited in No Added Sugar that year with Terry Smith and Kate Davis. In Grottesche, curated at Change Studio d’Arte Contemporanea by Domenico Scudero, she exhibited Gathering Worlds at Ex-chiesa di S. Stefano in Tivoli. Chancing the Circle (1999), Boyd’s site-specific installation was installed at the Pantheon in Rome in May 1999.

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.

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