becs boyd
bio
2020 Moray School of Art UHI - BA Hons Fine Art (First Class)
2012 Bridgehouse Art, Ullapool: Portfolio Course
Becs Boyd graduated from Moray School of Art in 2020 and is an artist and ecologist on the Black Isle. Her painting and sculpture often challenge narratives of human control and anthropocentrism, embracing human vulnerability in an uncertain and interconnected world. She won the New Highland Contemporary 4 award and has exhibited widely, including a solo show on Art North’s Projectroom 2020 and recent work selected for the Society of Scottish Artists. She received a Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award 2021-22.
bubbles of time and space
POLITICS
uncertainty
time as matter TOUCH - A PRECIOUS AND A DANGEROUS THING
myriad coexisting timescales you can't make a conscious robot
MANY KINDS OF SEPARATION
the spaces we don't control Listening creative engagement - co-creation disrupting the human prism Whatever happens happens...
We can't help being 'ecological' - made of the same stuff and working to the same rhythms as everything else on the planet. What philosopher Timothy Morton describes as ‘the actually rather boring (and definitely anthropocentric) idea that the world is exactly how humans make it’ makes no sense in a material, unpredictable world. But what happens as virtual and visual modes take over from more complex sensory engagement? What happens when touch becomes a dangerous thing? What happens when isolation and fear spotlight human vulnerability and loss of control? I am interested in uncertainty, politics, poetry, in the 'wild' within and without, in multiple temporalities and in the spaces we don't control. The Anthropocene challenges us to stay awake and keep listening.