Kirsty Boutle

Drawing, painting and sculpture as a material interrogation of the body - human and non-human forms are dismembered, disorganised, bastardised and re-presented as insatiably desiring, viscerally maniacal being-machines.
Driven by my interest in the potency of visceral experience, my practice exists as an intimate examination of the emergence of subjectivity brought about by transfigurative encounters with other forms and forces.
I've become increasingly curious about how the rhythm of flesh and the rhythm of contemporary (digitised) life are at odds and how this sensual disharmony manifests itself in, on and through bodies.
The resolved, surreal works seek to offer a sense of the strangeness of our current aesthetics, the ineffability of visceral experience and the limitless possibilities of the body as a site of violent actualisation.

2008-2011
BA(Hons) Contemporary Fine Art Practice
York St John University, UK
Awarded the York St John Faculty of Arts Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement and the According to Mcgee Prize for Outstanding Visual Work
2011-2013
MFA Contemporary Art Practice
Edinburgh College of Art

solo shows
2017
- Tropicana Pony | Sixfoot Gallery, Glasgow.
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group shows
2017
- Bonkers Contemporary | The Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh.
- RSA Open Exhibition | Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh.
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2016
- Visceral Absurdities | Kirsty Boutle and Eilidh
Mcpherson. Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
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2015
- Salontology | The Embassy, Edinburgh.
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2014
- Oracle | Interview Room Eleven, Edinburgh.
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2013
- Leave The Capital | The Fleming Collection, London.
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2012
- Marble Download | The Embassy, Edinburgh.
- Art Trier-Kunst York | Bar Lane Gallery, York.
- Art Trier-Kunst York | Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst,
Trier, Germany.
- Salon Neu | The Embassy, Edinburgh.
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2011
- Create 11 | York St John University, York.
- York St John Past and Present | According to Mcgee,
York.
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2010
- Strife | East Street Arts, Leeds.
- 53 Degrees North | The New School House Gallery,
York.