David Boyd

I'm David Boyd and I’m an artist, teacher, and trained architect based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. My work explores the relationships and tensions that lie between architectural drawing and fine art practice

My drawings are hand drawn on a traditional architectural drawing board, using pen, pencil, and adjustable set square. They are produced employing an approach inspired by the philosophical notions of Dadaism, Constructivism, and Pataphysics. With this approach, each drawing is a result of an unplanned process, with no preconceived end point in mind. The logic and rationale for each drawing is developed and established while the drawing is being constructed, through a slow process of spatial, formal, and compositional negotiation. The end point may result in an abstract visual archive of architectural thinking, whilst others may manifest into far more literal projections of a possible architecture. There is always a reason for a drawing, but never an aim.

The passion that drives my work is the desire to explore and create projections which question the notion of interpretation and readability in architectural drawing. I aim to create work which requires the viewer to, firstly, orientate themselves within the composition, and, ...

During the time I was studying for my fine art degree, from which I graduated in 2006, I developed a passion for Constructivist art, with a particular interest in Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist / Architekton studies. My interest in such work inspired me to then pursue architecture, and, in 2010, I began the long process of studying to become an architect, graduating in 2018.