About the work

The photograph is taken of a detail from a painted perforated steel panel exhibited at Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin in October 2018.

Date and country of birth

1967, GB>

About the artist

Martin Boyce (b. 1967, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire) lives and works in Glasgow. Graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (1997) and a BA in Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (1990). Boyce unveiled a major commission, Remembered Skies, at Tate Britain, London (2017) and represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition No Reflections (2009). Awards include the Turner Prize (2011) and the Hamlyn Foundation Award (2004). Select solo exhibitons include The Light Pours Out, Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin (2018); Hanging Gardens, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (2018); Light Years, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2017); Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2017); Spotlight: Do Words Have Voices, 2011, Tate Britain, London (2017); Spook School, CAPRI, Düsseldorf (2016); Martin Boyce: When Now is Night, RISD Museum, Providence (2016); Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2015); Stellar Remnants, Johnen Galerie, Berlin (2015); Billboard for Edinburgh: Martin Boyce, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2014); and Through Layers and Leaves (Closer and Closer), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2011). Select group exhibtions include Revolt & Revolutions: An Arts Council Collection National Partner Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2018); ISelf Collection, Whitechapel, London (2017); EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School, Sydney (2017); The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2016); and Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015).