Boyd Mcmillan

Born in Melbourne, Australia and lived in all states of the east coast.
I have continued a dual career as artist and landscape architect. I work in painting and drawing, pastels and sculpture.

My artwork is a direct response to the experience and emotion of bush walking and my personal study of other artists’ practise and philosophy.

The ink drawings are the most direct and reflect the initial reaction to the bush. I have developed a lifestyle of frequently walking in natural areas. The drawings help me to more fully experience and describe my response to places, their rhythms and the rocks and the plants and animals found in them.

Scale and point of view is important in my interpretation of the landscape how monumental scale, perspective and point of view influences to experience of the landscape.

The use of ink drawn with found objects assists in establishing direct and unpredictable marks to build on using ink wash and watercolour.

Most work has a substantial base outdoors and is finished in the studio. I enjoy the subtlety and strength of ink and the direct colour of pastel and watercolour.

Sculpture is developed intuitively from the from these experiences and as a way of exploring conceptual ideas ab...

I majored in painting at the Capricornia University Queensland where I studied with Neville Matthews and William Robinson.
Several years of working in landscape installations led to pursuing further studies in Landscape Architecture.

2021 Group Show Gang Gang Gallery
2021 Finalist Sculpture Bermagui
2020 Group Show Gang Gang Gallery
2020 Finalist Sculpture Bermagui
2019 Solo show Gallery One 88 Fine Arts
2019 The Other Art Fair Barangaroo Sydney
2019 The Other Art Fair Sydney
2019 Digital exhibitor The Tokyo Internal Art Fair
2019 Solo Show Gallery One88 Fine Arts
2019 Sculpture Bermagui
2018 Gallery One88 Fine Arts
2018 Sculpture Bermagui
2017, Solo Show The Shop Gallery Glebe
2017, Solo Show , Re:Publik Café
2017, Joint Show, Gosford Regional Gallery
2017, Invited Exhibitor, Sculpture at Kooindah,
2017, Finalist, Bermagui Sculpture
2016, Solo Show, The Shop Gallery Glebe
2016, Exhibitor, Sculpture on the Greens
2016, Finalist, Bermagui Sculpture 2017, Joint Show, Boyd and Parris, Gosford Regional Gallery
2017, Invited Exhibitor, Sculpture at Kooindah, Kooindah Waters
2017, Finalist, Bermagui Sculpture Prize, Bermagui
2016, Solo Show, The Shop Gallery Glebe
2016, Exhibitor, Sculpture on the Greens
2016, Finalist, Bermagui Sculpture Prize
2015, Solo Show, Gosford Regional Gallery
2014, Finalist Gosford Art Prize
2014, Joint Show, Redfish Gallery
2014, Solo Show, The Entrance Gallery
2013, Finalist Gosford Art Prize
2013, Sol...