The Boyle Family

The Boyle Family:

"  In the 1960′s the Boyle Family started a life long project to document surfaces of the planet. This ‘drawing through materials’ aesthetic has been inspired by earth, air, fire and water; animals, vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles,  water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body and have been documented through performances, data collection, projections, sculpture and photography. "

I am absolutely fascinated with this idea of pin pointing a specific area at random and photographing it so precisely.

I think the way these areas have been photographed is really interesting, the composition and the angles turns everyday scenes into beautiful photographs, you get a real sense of the surfaces and the textures, when viewing the images i start to think of the surroundings ans try to picture what's going on around the section photographed.

 Images sourced - www.bournefineart.com/Artist/p/artist/156

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills met in Yorkshire, in 1957. 

Joan had been an art and architecture student, and Mark wrote poetry whilst serving in the army.

They both shared similar views on art, believing that anything Was a subject and nothing could be overlooked.

They went on to have two children together, Sebastian and Georgia. From an early age they would be around the studios, helping out, getting more involved as they grew older.

Their best known work is the Earth Studies which included projects: " The London Series, Tidal Series, Thaw Series and Japan Series."

' World Series' - Is another well known body of work, where visitors to their studio were blindfolded and asked to throw darts, or fire an airgun at a map of the world which covered a wall. 

Eventually they acquired over a thousand random sites which they then further explored and photographed.

"The World Series (Initiated in 1968) pieces involve the meticulous re-creation of randomly chosen areas of the surface of the earth (using resin and fibreglass, as well as real materials from the site)"- Wikipedia.