Gabriella Boyd will join our RIA Residency in Scotland this October.
Gabriella Boyd
October–November 2024
Gabriella Boyd is a UK-based painter whose work translates the way the mind holds sensations and spaces into depictions of physical experiences and embodied memories, blurring the lines between representation and abstraction.
She returns to Scotland following her exhibition Presser at CAMPLE LINE this summer, which was her first solo show in a public gallery, and her first in Scotland. The title work from the exhibition is in the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
Gabriella will use the time offered by the residency to think about the representation of the body within her work. More specifically, our relationships with the vulnerable body and the meeting point between science and our perception of the internal body. She plans to visit and research the anatomical collection of The Hunterian in Glasgow by drawing and studying some of their medical objects and specimens.
Gabriella will also make use of the residency studio to create new paintings. The opportunity to draw from items in The Hunterian Collection, such as plaster casts of human and non-human dissections, allows Boyd to investigate the body’s interior in a variety of states. She will also be able to see first-hand and in detail how certain diseases and conditions visually affect the inside of the human body.
Find out more about Gabriella’s work through an essay by RIA curator Yates Norton that accompanied her CAMPLE LINE exhibition here.