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 (BA Hons First Class) and is an artist and ecologist on the Black Isle. Her painting and sculpture challenge narratives of human control and anthropocentrism, embracing human vulnerability in an uncertain and interconnected world. She won the New Highland Contemporary 4 award, was selected for the CiRCUS Graduate Associates and Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) Peer Mentorship programmes. Her work is in private collections across the UK from Orkney to London and has been selected for exhibitions by the SSA, Visual Arts Scotland and the Mall Galleries, London. She is represented by Kilmorack Gallery. Recent work draws on several months backpacking across the Arctic to research Sámi culture in relation to the natural environment.
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.