Boyle family biography poems
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Chronology
Solo exhibitions and major events by Mark Boyle, Joan Hills and Boyle Family are in bold.
1948 - 1949
Hills continued her painting from school days to student years, but studied Building, Construction and Structural Mechanics at the Heriot Watt College in Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
1950
Hills enrolled in architecture course at Edinburgh College of Art.
1951
Hills married, taking her husband's name, and left Edinburgh College of Art; moved to Suffolk where her husband worked.
1952
Mark Boyle enrolled at the University of Glasgow, studying Law. Continued developing interest in writing and poetry.
Cameron Hills born.
1953
Boyle left University and joined the army. Initially with the Scots Guards; later he moved to Northern Command Headquarters, outside Harrogate, where he organised supplies for the Ordnance Corps. He continued writing poetry.
1956
Joan Hills separated from her husband. Moved back to Edinburgh and then on to Harrogate, with her son, Cameron.
1957
April: Boyle and Hills met in Harrogate. They moved in together in the summer. Although still in the army, Boyle spends spare time writing poetry and then starts painting, borrowing Hills�s paints.
1959
Boyle and Hills sold their first paintings to a local collecto
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An Interview manage Boyle Family
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Great Scottish Art
“I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth I know not where,” wrote Longfellow. Which was also almost the working method of the Boyle Family, a group of conceptual artists comprising husband and wife Joan Hills (b 1933) and Mark Boyle (1934-2005) and their children.
“I have tried to cut out of my work, any hint of originality, style, superimposed design, wit, elegance or significance,” Boyle wrote in 1966. What he and his family tried to fit into his work was absolutely everything else: the entire world. As they developed as artists, they moved from initial attempts to incorporate parts of the world into their art to grander attempts to duplicate the world exactly.
Borges suggested that only a map to the same scale as the world would be a sufficiently accurate representation of reality. He considered such a thing rather impractical, but the Boyle family set out to create nothing less than a lifesize model of the entire world, a little bit at a time, working in randomly selected areas. The result is the World Series, a series of sculptures and other material produced since 1968.
Joan Hills was born in Edinburgh in 1933 and studied building construction and engineering at Heriot Watt University for two years before swi