Who Are The Boyle Family?
Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. From very early on, Mark and Joan’s children, Sebastian and Georgia, went around the studio, doing bits here and there, gradually getting more deeply involved: going on working trips, expeditions, helping to finalise and hang exhibitions. As adults, Sebastian and Georgia both opted to remain part of the team and since 1985 the four of them have exhibited as Boyle Family.
The Boyle Familys Work
The Boyle Family Projections
The Boyle Family also worked in other media including events, performance, film, photography and projection. These would include projecting found sweet wrappers and coloured dyes or fizzy drinks such as Coca Cola and Tizer; melting ice, boiling water and burning slides with the heat of the projector.
The Boyle Family Method
It involves a localized area being chosen at random from a map. The family then travel to this location and, in a last effort to eliminate any element of human subjectivity from the process, throw a right-angled piece of metal in the air; the angle at which it lands dictating the 6 x 6 square foot of area that will become the focus of the study.