Louisa Boyd

Louisa Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist who works in paint, print and sculpture. Her pieces are held in public and private collections worldwide and she is recognised regularly through prestigious juried exhibitions, showing on a number of occasions at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. In 2023, Louisa's work was featured as part of London Art Fair's Encounters (previously their project spaces) and she was invited to show at Just Like Escher at Escher in the Palace in the Netherlands. She was awarded the Great Art Prize at the Flourish Award Exhibition 2020 and a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) in 2023 to develop her printmaking practice.

Louisa's work centres around the persistent human desire to belong within the natural world. She considers environment and how we navigate place in her pieces. Her work features celestial symbols, sacred geometry, natural landmarks and map-like imagery to describe a sense of belonging.

EDUCATION

2023

QEST scholar (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) – for developing printmaking skills working with master craftsman Alistair Tucker

2001

BA (hons) Embroidery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

2024 - Debut:: Inaugural Open, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2023 - Just Like Escher, Escher in the Palace, The Hague, Netherlands

2023 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich, London

2023 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2023 - London Art Fair - Encounters project space, Business Design Centre, Islington, London

2022 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich, London

2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich, London

2021 - New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Touring Scarborough Art Gallery, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, Tullie House Museum and Gallery, Carlisle, and Bankside Gallery, London, UK

2020 - Structured, Gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex, UK

2020 - Flourish Award Exhibition, Touring Woodend Gallery, Scarborough and Piazza, Huddersfield, UK

2019 - Print International, Ty Pawb, Wrexham, UK

2019 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, London, UK

2019 - Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2018 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, London, UK

2018 - Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2017 - ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2017 - The John Ruskin Prize 2017 Shortlist Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffie...