Study from the Broken Path Series with Border Edging
About this artwork
The works of Boyle Family replicate the world with the minimum of artistic intervention and as objectively as possible. They aim to make us look at reality with the same attention we would devote to a film or to the visual arts. Chance also plays an important role in determining what they will reproduce. This is one of a series of random studies of broken black and white paths, showing the process of disintegration and change. It is one of their Earth Works, in which they reproduce a section of ground, whether it be pavement, sand or soil.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Study from the Broken Path Series with Border Edging
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date created:1986
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materials:Painted fibreglass and mixed media
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measurements:182.70 x 305.00 x 12.50 cm / 78.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased 1986
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accession number:GMA 3016
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Boyle Family (Mark Boyle, Joan Hills, Sebastian Boyle, Georgia Boyle)
Boyle Family (Mark Boyle, Joan Hills, Sebastian Boyle, Georgia Boyle)
Mark Boyle (1934–2005) was born in Glasgow. During the 1960s he collaborated with his partner Joan Hills (1931–2024) in making assemblages of junk and found objects, before moving on to produce replicas of sections of the Earth. Their project Journey to the Surface of the Earth was launched in...