About the work

My paintings often depict relationships between figures that seem to oscillate between generous acts and refusal or violence. Are we observing the administering of holistic care or combat? Dance or ritual? Lungs hold on to the outside of their garments, these characters seem to be held in place by the brittle air surrounding them.  

Date and country of birth

1988, GB

About the artist

Born 1988 Glasgow, Gabriella Boyd lives and works in London. Graduated from Glasgow School of Art (2011), and Royal Academy Schools (2017).

Boyd’s works are held in public and private collections including Arts Council Collection, Walker Art Gallery Collection, and Royal Academy of Arts London Collection.

Selected solo exhibitions include For Days, Seventeen Gallery, London (2020); and Help Yourself, Blain Southern, London (2018). Selected group exhibitions include Reconfigured, Timothy Taylor, New York (2021); Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps, New York (2021); Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York (2020); Silent Tourist, Mackintosh Lane, London (2019); Preparing for what? Josh Lilley, London (2019); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); Dreamers Awake, White Cube Bermondsey, London (2017); and Gabriella Boyd and Marco Giordano, Art Park, Glasgow International (2016). Commissions include illustrating a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, commissioned by the Folio Society (2015).

Awards include John Moores prize winner (2016), and the John Merrell Prize (2017).