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Boyd turned away from this commercial work and to a full-time career in sculpture in 1965 when he held his first solo show at Australian Galleries in Melbourne. His commissions include sculptures in both Melbourne and Sydney's international airports, Caulfield Town Hall, the Commonwealth Bank and has pieces in the [[National Gallery of Victoria]], Melbourne. He had exhibitions of his work in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
Boyd turned away from this commercial work and to a full-time career in sculpture in 1965 when he held his first solo show at Australian Galleries in Melbourne. His commissions include sculptures in both Melbourne and Sydney's international airports, Caulfield Town Hall, the Commonwealth Bank and has pieces in the [[National Gallery of Victoria]], Melbourne. He had exhibitions of his work in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.


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In 1967 Boyd founded and was President of the Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee; a plaque commemorating his achievements in preserving the Brighton Foreshore was erected on the beach at Brighton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brightonbathingbox.org.au/en/history|title=History & timeline - Brighton Bathing Box Association Inc.|website=www.brightonbathingbox.org.au|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref> In 1968 he won a [[Churchill Fellowship]] to study art overseas. He migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122500416|title=Sculptor Guy Boyd moving to Canada|date=2 March 1985|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|accessdate=28 September 2019|issue=18,052|location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia|volume=59,|page=1|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1968 Boyd won a [[Churchill Fellowship]] to study art overseas; and was appointed the Art Advisor to [[Deakin University]] in 1988.


'Guy Boyd' written by Anne Von Bertouch and Patrick Hutchins was published by Lansdowne Press in 1976.
He was recognised with a large format monograph, 'Guy Boyd' written by Anne Von Bertouch and Patrick Hutchins published by Lansdowne Press in 1976. He was Australian Co-ordinator of the 'Save Lindy Chamberlain' campaign and in 1984 edited the book ''Justice in Jeopardy'' in her defence. He was appointed the Art Advisor to [[Deakin University]] in 1988.


He was Australian Co-ordinator of 'Save Lindy Chamberlain' and edited the book ''Justice in Jeopardy'' in her defence.


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Boyd died 26 April 1988 from coronary artherosclerosis and was buried with [[Church of England in Australia|Anglican]] rites in [[Brighton, Victoria|Brighton]] cemetery. His wife, Phyllis, and their fiveHe migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later.<ref name=":0" /> daughters and two sons, survived him.
He was President of the Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee, which he founded. A plaque commemorating his achievements in preserving the Brighton Foreshore was erected on the beach at Brighton, Victoria, Melbourne.

He was President of the Port Phillip Protection Society and was arrested campaigning against the damming of the Franklin River in Tasmania.

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He migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122500416|title=Sculptor Guy Boyd moving to Canada|date=2 March 1985|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|accessdate=28 September 2019|issue=18,052|location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia|volume=59,|page=1|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

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Boyd died 26 April 1988 from coronary artherosclerosis and was buried with [[Church of England in Australia|Anglican]] rites in [[Brighton, Victoria|Brighton]] cemetery. His wife, Phyllis, and their five daughters and two sons, survived him.
== Technique ==
== Technique ==
[[James Gleeson]], writing in the ''[[The Sun-Herald|Sun-Herald]]'',<ref>quoted in {{Citation | author1=Von Bertouch, Anne | author2=Hutchings, Patrick, 1929- | title=Guy Boyd | page=125 | publication-date=1976 | publisher=Lansdowne Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11182969}}</ref> Sydney in June 1966 provides insight into Boyd's choice of sculptural medium, his method of working and its influence on the forms he favoured:
[[James Gleeson]], writing in the ''[[The Sun-Herald|Sun-Herald]]'',<ref>quoted in {{Citation | author1=Von Bertouch, Anne | author2=Hutchings, Patrick, 1929- | title=Guy Boyd | page=125 | publication-date=1976 | publisher=Lansdowne Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11182969}}</ref> Sydney in June 1966 provides insight into Boyd's choice of sculptural medium, his method of working and its influence on the forms he favoured:

Revision as of 09:05, 28 September 2019

Guy Boyd
The Swimmer
at the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra.
Born
Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd

(1923-06-12)12 June 1923
Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia
Died26 April 1988(1988-04-26) (aged 64)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forSculpture, pottery
Spouse(s)Barbara Dawn Cooper (1950–2)
Phyllis Nairn (1952– )

Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (12 June 1923 – 26 April 1988) was an Australian potter and figurative sculptor noted for his ability to represent sensuality in the female nude with fluid forms.[1][2] He was also active in environmental and other causes, including protesting against the damming of the Franklin River and advocating the innocence of Lindy Chamberlain.[3]

The Boyd family artistic dynasty includes painters, sculptors, architects and other arts professionals, commencing with Boyd's grandfather Arthur Merric Boyd, Boyd's father Merric and mother Doris, uncles Penleigh Boyd and Martin Boyd, and brothers Arthur and David, both painters. Mary Boyd, his sister and also a painter, married first John Perceval, and then later Sidney Nolan, both artists.

Background and early years

Born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, he was the third child of William Merric Boyd, potter, and his wife Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield, née Gough, a painter, and thus a member of the Boyd artist dynasty, brother of painters Arthur Boyd and David Boyd, and grew up in his father's pottery. In 1941-46 he served in the Australian Army Reserve, however as a committed pacifist he was deployed as a draughtsman in Melbourne and then at Fortuna mansion in Bendigo, before conflicts with his superiors resulted in his being posted in 1944 to the 103rd Convalescent Depot, Ingleburn, New South Wales, to teach pottery to the patients.[4][5]

Postwar, he worked as a potter, establishing both Martin Boyd Pottery and later Guy Boyd Pottery.[6] These studios produced a wide range of modernist objects from house-wares to decorative pieces which enjoyed strong commercial success. Iconic Australian imagery, particularly flora and indigenous motifs,[7] feature frequently. This period of work is also steeped in the 'atomic age' aesthetics of the 1950s and early 1960s with a familiar color palette and shapes that hold strong echos of Eames and others.[4]

Career

Boyd turned away from this commercial work and to a full-time career in sculpture in 1965 when he held his first solo show at Australian Galleries in Melbourne. His commissions include sculptures in both Melbourne and Sydney's international airports, Caulfield Town Hall, the Commonwealth Bank and has pieces in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. He had exhibitions of his work in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

In 1967 Boyd founded and was President of the Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee; a plaque commemorating his achievements in preserving the Brighton Foreshore was erected on the beach at Brighton.[8] In 1968 he won a Churchill Fellowship to study art overseas. He migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later.[9]

He was recognised with a large format monograph, 'Guy Boyd' written by Anne Von Bertouch and Patrick Hutchins published by Lansdowne Press in 1976. He was Australian Co-ordinator of the 'Save Lindy Chamberlain' campaign and in 1984 edited the book Justice in Jeopardy in her defence. He was appointed the Art Advisor to Deakin University in 1988.


Boyd died 26 April 1988 from coronary artherosclerosis and was buried with Anglican rites in Brighton cemetery. His wife, Phyllis, and their fiveHe migrated to Canada with his wife and four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later.[9] daughters and two sons, survived him.

Technique

James Gleeson, writing in the Sun-Herald,[10] Sydney in June 1966 provides insight into Boyd's choice of sculptural medium, his method of working and its influence on the forms he favoured:

Boyd’s technique is not merely original (for that in itself is not necessarily a virtue), it is original and entirely at one with the intention of the artist. He has perfected the ideal means for saying what he wants to say, so the originality of his technique is also artistically important. First stage in the transmutation of nature into art is a wax model. This is the creative stage when the soft wax must be thumbed into a work of art that is alive with the vibrancy of nature. The next stage is the plating of the model with silver or copper, but the usual process would smooth away the subtleties of surface modelling and destroy its vitality. So the wax effigy sits in its acid bath for weeks on end and a very low charge of electricity gradually deposits a paper thin layer of metal on its surface. The wax is chemically dissolved, the shell is strengthened on the inside and finally filled with a plastic stone that will neither expand nor contract to endanger the metal skin.

As well as the electroplating technique described, Boyd also produced sculptures and reliefs in terracotta and plaster, but most are bronze cast in the lost wax process,[11] in which he innovated through the admixture of silicon with wax,[9] and editions produced in bronze, aluminium and even silver.

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 1965: Australian Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1965: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
  • 1966: Bonython’s Hungry Horse Art Gallery, Sydney
  • 1967: Australian Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1967: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
  • 1968: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
  • 1968: Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1969: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
  • 1970: The Leicester Galleries, London[12]
  • 1970: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney[13]
  • 1971: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1971: Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1971: Skinner Galleries, Perth
  • 1972: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
  • 1972: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane[14]
  • 1973: Manyung Galleries, Victoria
  • 1973: Von Bcrtouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1973: Skinner Galleries, Perth
  • 1974: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1974: Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane[15]
  • 1975: Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
  • 1975: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1976: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1976: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1976: Dominion Gallery, Montreal
  • 1977: The Randall Gallery, New York[16]
  • 1978: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1978: Retrospective: The Australian Embassy, Washington DC
  • 1979: Shaw Gallery, Toronto
  • 1980: The Randall Gallery, New York
  • 1980: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1981: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1981: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 1982: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1983: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1983: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 1984: Greenhill Galleries, Perth
  • 1984: Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
  • 1984: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1985: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1985: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 1985: Golden Age (David Ellis) Gallery, Ballarat[17]
  • 1986: Clarkson University, New York
  • 1987: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
  • 1987: David Ellis Fine Art, Melbourne
  • 1988: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 1988: Greenhill Galleries, Perth

Posthumous solo

  • 1989: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
  • 1990: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

Group

From 1945, Guy Boyd exhibited in group shows all Australian State capitals,[18] with representation as recently as 2012,[19] and overseas, including Leicester Galleries, London in 1957, and at galleries in New York, San Francisco and Montreal.

Awards

1968: Churchill Fellowship

Collections and Commissions

  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne
  • University of Newcastle, Newcastle
  • McLelland Art Foundation, Melbourne
  • Colac Sculpture Park
  • Churchill House, Canberra
  • International Airport, Melbourne
  • International Airport, Sydney
  • Australian Embassy, Washington DC
  • Prudential Art Museum, Toronto
  • Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat
  • La Trobe University, Melbourne
  • Monash University, Melbourne
  • National Sports Complex, Canberra
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
  • Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin
  • Deakin University
  • Clarkson University, New York

Published works

  • Boyd, Guy, ed. (1984). Justice in jeopardy: twelve witnesses speak out. Cheltenham, Vic.: Guy Boyd: distributed by Kingfisher Books. p. 207. ISBN 0-9591142-0-3.

See also

References

  1. ^ Savill Galleries (2005), The female form, Sydney, New South Wales
  2. ^ Von Bertouch, Anne; Hutchings, Patrick, 1929- (1976), Guy Boyd, Lansdowne Press{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Boyd, Guy, ed. (1984). Justice in jeopardy: twelve witnesses speak out. Cheltenham, Vic.: Guy Boyd: distributed by Kingfisher Books. p. 207. ISBN 0-9591142-0-3.
  4. ^ a b Niall, Brenda (2007). "Boyd, Guy Martin à Beckett (1923–1988)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Sydney, Day By Day". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 33, 459. New South Wales, Australia. 20 March 1945. p. 5. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Three generations of Australians achieved fame here and abroad—all of them born with a "magic touch" THREE GRACES BLESSED 'THOSE BOYDS'". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 33, 296. Victoria, Australia. 22 May 1953. p. 19. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau; Aboriginal Scholarships Appeal (1956), An exhibition of "Aboriginal design at work" in the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Gallery, Monday, April 23rd. to Friday, May 4th, 1956 ... : Catalogue of exhibits, Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Gallery
  8. ^ "History & timeline - Brighton Bathing Box Association Inc". www.brightonbathingbox.org.au. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  9. ^ a b c "Sculptor Guy Boyd moving to Canada". The Canberra Times. Vol. 59, , no. 18, 052. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 2 March 1985. p. 1. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  10. ^ quoted in Von Bertouch, Anne; Hutchings, Patrick, 1929- (1976), Guy Boyd, Lansdowne Press, p. 125{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Boyd, Phyllis; von Bertouch, Anne, 1915-2003 (1985), Guy Boyd: survey of sculpture in bronze, 1946-1985, Holdsworth Gallery, retrieved 28 September 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Boyd, Guy; Boyd, Guy; Ernest Brown & Phillips (1970), Catalogue of the first exhibition in England of sculpture by Guy Boyd, Leicester Galleries
  13. ^ Boyd, Guy (1970), Guy Boyd, Bonython Art Gallery
  14. ^ Boyd, Guy (1972), Sculptures in bronze, Johnstone Gallery
  15. ^ Boyd, Guy; Philip Bacon Galleries (1974), Guy Boyd sculpture : at the Philip Bacon Galleries, Philip Bacon Galleries
  16. ^ Boyd, Guy; Randall Galleries (1977), "Sculpture in bronze" : (First exhibition in New York), Randall Galleries
  17. ^ Boyd, Guy; Philip Bacon Galleries (1974), Guy Boyd sculpture : at the Philip Bacon Galleries, Philip Bacon Galleries
  18. ^ Blackman, Charles; Blackman, Charles, 1928-2018; National Gallery of Victoria (1976), The antipodeans revisited : Melbourne figurative artists of the 1950's, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-0-7241-0025-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ Savill Galleries, (host institution.) (2012), Celebrated Australian artists : 23 October-14 November 2012, Savill Galleries, retrieved 28 September 2019

Bibliography

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