Description
2023
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15 x 21.5 cm
Gabriella Boyd’s (b. 1988, Glasgow, UK) paintings elide the boundary between formal and representational languages, with each canvas occupied by overlapping figurative and structural motifs. Governed by a dreamlike logic, each image is at the threshold of a tangible world and a distant memory. Utilizing a distinct almost uneasy palette (which seems at once visceral and synthetic), each painting is anchored by the interrelationship between humans and their environment, hinting at a knowable narrative before evading it. Gabriella lives and works in London. She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2007-2011) and Royal Academy Schools, London (2014-2017). She was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016, and was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams in 2015. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Arts Council Collection (United Kingdom); Columbus Museum of Art (United States); De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (US); He Art Museum (China); Long Museum (CN); The Roberts Institute of Art (UK); Royal Academy of Arts Collection (UK) and Walker Art Gallery Collection (UK). You can view more of her work at GRIMM Gallery.
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