Boyle Family with the Centre of Attention at Project(or) platform for current art stages at Art Rotterdam 2008

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		Boyle Family
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	Boyle Family Earth Piece

	BOYLE FAMILY Mark Boyle born 1934 in Glasgow, died 2005 in London Joan Hills born 1931 in Edinburgh Sebastian Boyle born 1962 in London Georgia Boyle born 1963 in London Boyle Family live and work in London SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2005 Visual Music, MoCA LA and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Controlled, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery Summer of Love, Tate Liverpool and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Teaming, the Embassy, Edinburgh 2004 Art & the 60's, This was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland, Boyle Family: Journey to the Surface of the Earth (toured to Hafnarborg Museum, Hafnarfjordur) The Centre of Attention, London, The London Sound Study construction, London, Boyle Family, Early Projections 2003 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Boyle Family 2002 construction, London Markers, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario Blast to Freeze British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg toured to Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (2003) 2001 construction, London Les Annees Pop, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Beyond Image film) 2000 construction, London. Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London toured to Museu do Chiado Lisbon Beside the Sea, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. 1999 construction, Edinburgh Collaboration Art, Possibilities of Joint Production, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art Relic/ Reliquary, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary 1998 Compton Verney Art Museum Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949 - 1979, MOCA Los Angeles and tour to MAK Vienna, MACBA Barcelona, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Transistors, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan and Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh In Our Time, Bayley Art Museum, Virginia 1996 Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London. 1991 Runkle-Hue Williams Gallery, London 1990 Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Glasgow's Great British Art Exhibition, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, New York and tour. Boyle Family: Japan Series Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1989 Turske & Turske Gallery, Zurich Terra Firma, Columbia University Gallery, New York 1988 Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Galerie Lelong, Paris. Experience of Landscape, Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition Modern British Sculpture, Tate Gallery, Liverpool British Contemporary Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre and tour. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 1987 British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy London toured to Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Southampton City Art Gallery Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Museum Sztuki, Lødz and the BWR Gallery, Sopot, Gdansk, Poland XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil Gardner Centre, Brighton Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Turske & Turske Gallery, Zurich Turske & Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 Between Object & Image, British Contemporary Sculpture, Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid; toured to Barcelona and Bilbao Forty years of Modern Art, 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London Studies of the Nude, Marlborough Fine Art, London Cornerhouse Art Centre, Manchester Hayward Gallery, London Beyond Image: Boyle Family 1985 Exhibition Dialogue, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Oslo Boyle Family Archives, September. First exhibition as Boyle Family 1983 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1982 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Aspects of British Art, British Council Tour of Japan to Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Fukuoka Art Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art. 1981 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California Approaches to Landscape, Tate Gallery, London Toyama Museum, Toyama, Japan (Inaugural Exhibition). 1980 Kunstmuseum, Lucerne Mark Boyle und Joan Hills' Reise um die Welt 3: Schweizer Serie / Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' Journey to the Surface of the Earth 3: The Swiss Site Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Journey to the Surface of the Earth Contemporary Arts Society Gallery, Australia Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, Washington British Art 1940-80: The Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, Hayward Gallery, London From Object to Object, Arts Council of Great Britain Touring Exhibition. 1979 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Mark Boyle: at Opdage Virkeligheden Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund 1978 British Pavilion, XXXIX Venice Biennale Kunstmuseum, Lucerne Mark Boyle und Joan Hills' Reise um die Welt / Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' Journey to the Surface of the Earth Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Oslo Kulturhuset, Stockholm Painters in Parallel, Edinburgh College of Art Arts Council of Great Britain Collection Acquisitions, Hayward Gallery, London. 1977 Photographs - Works at Felicity Samuel Gallery, London Real Life, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool English Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Bregenz, Austria Felicity Samuel Gallery, London 1976 Arte Inglese Oggi 1960-76, Palazzo Reale, Milan Recent British Art, British Council Touring Exhibition to Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, Iran, Poland, Scandinavia and Portugal 1975 Serpentine Gallery, London, Mark Boyle: Journey to the Surface of the Earth (Continued) British Art Mid '70s, Frankfurt and Leverkusen From Britain '70s, Helsinki Project 3 - Body and Soul, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 1974 Bergheim, Germany, World Series project, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, centenary exhibition Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, Mark Boyle: Erdproben aus 'London Study' 1973 Kelvinhall, Glasgow, Mark Boyle: Journey to the Surface of the Earth McRobert Art Centre, Stirling Gallery Muller, Stuttgart. Magic and Strong Medicine Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Skin Series 1972 Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne British Thing, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Oslo 1971 Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Oslo. Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne 1970 Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Journey to the Surface of the Earth ICA, London, Exhibition of the Sand, Wind and Tide Series Bela Centre, Copenhagen. 1969 ICA, London Journey to the Surface of the Earth: An Exhibition to Launch and Earthprope by Mark Boyle, The Sensual Laboratory and The Institute of Contemporary Archaeology Body Work, Event at the ICA, London. Taste / Sight and Smell / Taste, Events at ICA, London 24 June: Soft Machine played a concert at the ICA inside Boyle / Hills / Sensual Laboratory projected environment 1968 Zagreb International Exhibition - Prize for Painting January-April: toured USA with Jimi Hendrix and Soft Machine, producing light environments for Soft Machine. (Approximately 50 performances) 22 March: produced light environment for opening of the new ICA at Nash House, The Mall, London Arts Lab., London, collaboration with George Brecht, Cornelius Cardew and John Tilbury. 1967 Bluecoat Society of Arts, Liverpool (Exhibition and performance of two events:Son et Lumière for Earth, Air, Fire and Water and Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions Bristol Art Centre Exhibition and performance of Son et Lumière for Earth, Air, Fire and Water Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions and other projection pieces, Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London 14-Hour Technicolour Dream, Alexandra Palace, London. All-night group event to raise funds for International Times. Collaboration with Soft Machine Festival Sur la Plage de Saint-Aygulf, France: provided light environments for Soft Machine in geodisc dome designed by Kieth Albarn. Festival of Free Theatre, Cogolin, France, organised by Jean Jaques Lebel, Boyle and Hills collaborate with Soft Machine to provide overture for Picasso play Desire Caught by the Tail Lullaby for Catatonics Edinburgh Festival collaboration with Soft Machine and Graziella Martinez, later performed at Toulon Festival, Paris Biennale and in Holland). Also collaborate with Soft Machine to provide sound and light show for Traverse Players production of Ubu in Chains at the Festival Cinquième Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (28 September - 3 November). Prize for painting Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions, Roundhouse, London. Premio Lissone, Milan. Prize for Painting Sensual Laboratory and Graziella Martinez performance at the Arts Lab, Drury Lane, London, runs for 70 performances 1966 Indica Gallery, London First performed on 1 September as the opening event of the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) at Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London 30 September: burning slide projection as part of final day of DIAS, Mercury Theatre, London Institute of Contemporary Archeology, London 23 December: Boyle and Hills / Sensual Laboratory performed Son et Lumière for Earth, Air, Fire and Water at UFO club, London and are then asked to provide light environments for Soft Machine for the first time, which they continued to do at UFO and other venues in London, Britain and Europe throughout 1967 1965 Oh What a Lovely Whore, event at ICA London Any Play or No Play, event at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London. 1964 Constrasts, McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery, London Bags Event performed as part of the International Festival of Happenings, organised by Jean Jaques Lebel, at Denison Hall, London Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, Traverse Art Gallery, Edinburgh Traverse Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Mark Boyle Assemblages First random earth studies, on a demolition site at Norland Road, Shepherd's Bush, London First presentation of physical and chemical reactions projected through light projectors. Suddenly Last Supper, 114 Queensgate, London 1963 Woodstock Gallery, London, Erections, Constructions & Assemblages by Mark Boyle Traverse Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Erections, Constructions & Assemblages by Mark Boyle Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow Erections, Constructions & Assemblages by Mark Boyle Public collections Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland Art Gallery of South Australia,Adelaide Arts Council of Great Britain Basle Art Museum, Switzerland Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Bochum Museum, Germany The British Council, London The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, U.S.A. Dundee Art Gallery and Museum Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow District Council Guildhall Art Gallery, London Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Huddersfield Art Gallery Iwaki City Museum, Japan Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, West Germany Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum, USA Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany McMaster University Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan Museum Moderna Kunst, Vienna, Austria National Film Archive, London National Gallery, Berlin National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Newport Harbour Art Museum, U.S.A. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, U.S.A. Stadtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Germany Tate, London Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Toledo Museum, Ohio, U.S.A. Ulster Museum, Belfast Von der Hoydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Washington State University Museum, U.S.A. Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany Wiesbaden Museum, Germany