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Boyd Webb
Shortlisted: 1988

In the 1970s Webb began taking photographs of carefully staged scenes consisting of actors and props arranged in dramatic settings. His fabricated scenes became increasingly fantastic, hinting at parallel universes where familiar objects no longer have their usual properties or functions. An enduring feature of his work has been his concern with ecological issues such as pollution, nuclear waste and the effects of technology.

Boyd Webb was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1947. He attended the Ilam School of Art until 1971 and then studied at the Royal College of Art from 1972 to 1975. Webb was included in the unpublished shortlist for the Turner Prize in 1988 for his exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Boyd Webb in the Tate Collection