We are delighted to announce Presser, the first institutional exhibition for Gabriella Boyd opening at Cample Line in Scotland on the 23rd March and running until 2nd June 2024.
The exhibition will include a series of new works on canvas and paper painted over the course of the past year, alongside a series of existing work drawn from Boyd’s recent solo presentations presentations Landing at GRIMM, London (UK) in 2023, Mile at GRIMM, New York, NY (US) in 2022 and Signal at Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US) in 2022. This will be Gabriella’s first solo show in a public gallery and her first in Scotland. A newly commissioned short essay by Yates Norton, curator at the Roberts Institute of Art, will accompany the exhibition.
Boyd’s paintings explore the interactions that tether us both loosely and tightly to each other and to the world around us. Hovering between figuration and abstraction, her paintings give visual form to sensations, memories, stories and spaces that we hold in the mind, and she has spoken of her paintings as attempts to translate sensory experience into image.
Of the new work she is making for Presser, Boyd has said, ‘I seem to be arriving at places that feel like a heightened sensory perception of an environment. Spaces which hold anatomy in the centre of them. Like the space is being seen through the lens of a body.’ Her new canvases will bring together elements familiar across her wider body of work - the human presence, narrative fragments, evocation of interior states and references to the built and natural worlds – which will take on a distinct charge in relation to Cample Line’s domestic scale and rural setting.
