Biography
Martin Boyce (born 1967) is a Scottish sculptor inspired by early 20th century modernism. He is represented by the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City and by The Modern Institute, Osborne Street in Glasgow.
Boyce was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire and educated at Holy Cross High School in Hamilton. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA in environmental art in 1990, then a MFA in 1997. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and children.
Boyce won the 2011 Turner Prize for his installation Do Words Have Voices, displayed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The installation is a recreation of a park in autumn.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
Martin Boyce from ‘Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours’
2002
Martin Boyce Suspended Fall
2005
Martin Boyce Gate (We don’t meet here. We are always together first.)
2004
Martin Boyce Do Words Have Voices
2011
Martin Boyce Untitled
2009
Features
Clore Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist tells of the enduring influence on his work of Jan and Joël Martel's cubist sculptures
Sifting defunct modernism in search of something useful: New Modernism
‘New Modernism is rampant,’ argues Martin Herbert
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