# Boyle Family
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{{Short description|Scottish artist (1934–2005)}}
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'''Mark Boyle''' (11 May 1934 – 4 May 2005[{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mark-boyle-797|title=Mark Boyle 1934-2005 {{!}} Tate|last=Tate|work=Tate|access-date=2018-03-21|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322135317/http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mark-boyle-797|archive-date=March 22, 2018 |url-status=live}}][{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Obituary: Mark Boyle|last=Andrew Wilson|date=2005-06-09|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322135521/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|archive-date=March 22, 2018 |url-status=live}}]) was a Scottish artist born in Glasgow and known for his work in the cultural [UK Underground](/source/UK_Underground) of the 1960s around the [Traverse Theatre](/source/Traverse_Theatre),[{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Mark Boyle: Artist who pioneered the psychedelic light show|last=Wilson|first=Andrew|date=10 June 2005|work=The Guardian|access-date=21 October 2013|archive-date=25 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425055331/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|url-status=live}}]
Boyle and Hills created multimedia works in the 1960s under the names '''Institute of Contemporary Archaeology''' and '''The Seminal Laboratory'''.[{{cite book |last1=Hare |first1=Bill |title=Scottish Artists in an Age of Radical Change |date=2019 |publisher=Luath Press |isbn=9781912147915 }}]{{rp|84}}
Although Boyle Family have worked across a wide range of different media (including painting, photography, sculpture, film, projection, sound recordings and drawing), they are perhaps best known for their Earth studies. These pictures – highly accurate painted casts that operate somewhere between painting and sculpture – involve the meticulous re-creation of randomly chosen areas of the Earth's surface using resin and fibreglass (as well as real materials collected from the original site) and have been exhibited internationally. Past shows have included the British Pavilion at the XXXIX [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale) in 1978, the [Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art%2C_Boston) in 1982,[{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Kenneth |title=Art: Critical ground |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-03-30_11_13/page/n69/mode/1up |access-date=12 August 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=30 March 1982}}] ''Beyond Image - Boyle Family'' ([Hayward Gallery](/source/Hayward_Gallery), London) in 1986 and ''Boyle Family'' ([Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art](/source/Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art), Edinburgh) - a major retrospective held in 2003.[{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1780090.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105225520/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1780090.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2013|title=Visual Art: And You Think Your Family Is All at Sea|last=Derwent|first=Charles|date=17 August 2003|work=Independent on Sunday|via=[HighBeam Research](/source/HighBeam_Research)|access-date=21 October 2013}}]
In addition to developing highly original casting techniques, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills also pioneered the use of [liquid light shows](/source/liquid_light_shows) during the 1960s.