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Louisa Boyd
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BIOGRAPHY
Louisa Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking and sculpture, with over twenty five years of professional experience and an established exhibition history in the UK and internationally. Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide, and she is regularly selected for prestigious juried exhibitions,
Louisa Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking and sculpture, with over twenty five years of professional experience and an established exhibition history in the UK and internationally. Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide, and she is regularly selected for prestigious juried exhibitions,
Recent highlights include Contemporary Narratives at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Art of Paper at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (2026), Paperworks at the Royal West of England Academy, New Light Summer Exhibition and Wells Contemporary (2025), London Art Fair Encounters (2023) and multiple appearances at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She has also exhibited at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair on numerous occasions and the New Light Prize Exhibition. In 2021, she received the Great Art Prize at the Flourish Award Exhibition for printmaking,
In 2023, Boyd was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) Scholarship to further develop her printmaking practice. That year, she was also invited to exhibit a sculptural work in Just Like Escher at Escher in the Palace in the Netherlands, an exhibition celebrating the 125th anniversary of M.C. Escher's birth.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Louisa Boyd's practice explores the enduring human desire to belong and the ways in which the natural world and our surroundings shape a sense of place, identity and connection. Drawing on celestial and terrestrial cartography, sacred geometry and symbolic imagery, she creates prints and sculptures that explore humanity's relationship with the wider world and our place within it.
Her sculptural works are informed by the mathematical structures of scared geometry, particularly the Platonic Solids, which Plato associated with the five elements: earth. air, fire, water and aether.These geometric forms provide a framework through which Boyd investigates the underlying patterns of the natural world and the human impulse to find meaning and connection within it.
Her etchings are produced on copper plates using deep-etching processes and intuitive, automatic drawing. Traditional printmaking techniques and hand-drawn marks are layered with more abstract, painterly gestures bringing historic references into her contemporary aesthetic..
Traditional craft is central to Boyd's practice. Through her exploration of heritage techniques, including etching, bookbinding and hand marbling, she considers belonging from a cultural perspective. By combining these time-honoured processes wit a contemporary approach, Boyd creates work that bridges the familiar and the unknown, the material and the symbolic.
Location
Cheshire
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