Jamie Boyd comes from at long line of famous artists. History confirms that the Boyd Family collectively have made a very profound and well-documented contribution to Australian art dating back to the nineteenth century.
Born in 1948 in Murrumbeena Victoria, the son of Arthur Boyd and nephew of David, his world has always been surrounded by art and creativity. From this solid foundation Jamie has taken his own work to new heights to become a truly unique artist in his very own right.
At age seventeen he embarked on a full time career as an artist and studied at the Michael Karolyi Foundation in southern France. He held his first solo exhibition in Adelaide in 1966 and has subsequently held exhibitions throughout Australia, Italy, Germany, Holland and England.
He has lived most of his adult life in London, returning to Australia periodically. His distinctive work thus reflects both the enduring influences of the Australian landscape and a broad international sensibility.
“There is a fundamental difference between a person’s perception of a cypress-studded horizon in Tuscany and the same person’s idea of the Australian bush landscape. The European landscape evokes intrinsic harmony whereas the Australian does not. One is made to feel intrusive; the bush’s intimate fragility is disquietingly unfamiliar.”
‘There is a dream-like quality throughout Jamie’s work. He is an enthusiastic painter of the landscape and the figure, constantly challenging and redefining his knowledge of art through experimentation and play.’
Jamie currently lives in London with his wife and five children.
EXHIBITIONS
1966 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
1967 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1968 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1969 Drian Galleries, London, England
Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1970 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide & Sydney
1971 Clytie Jessop Gallery, London, England
Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1972 Drian Galleries, London, England
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1973 Skinner Galleries, Perth
1976 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
Gallerie Kuppers, Neuss, Germany
1977 Gallerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Holland
1978 Fine Arts Gallery, Perth
1979 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1980 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
New South Wales House, London, England
David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat
1981 Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
1982 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
1984 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1985 David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat
Cariaggio Gallery, Palaia, Italy
1986 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1987 New South Wales House, London, England
1988 Boundary Gallery, London, England
Savill Gallery, Sydney
Schubert Gallery, Surfers Paradise
New South Wales House, London, England
1989 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
1990 Boundary Gallery, London, England
Beaver Gallery, Canberra
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, England
1992 Gillian Jason, London, England
1993 Aviva Campbell Gallery, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
1994 Corbally Steurton, London, England
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
1995 Chappel Galleries, Essex, England
Eva Breuer, Sydney
1996 Stair Gallery, London, England
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Galleria Aniela Fine Art, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
“People, Places, Landscapes” Aviva Campbell Gallery, Melbourne
1997 “Reaching Beyond Time” Galleria Aniela Fine Art, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
“Encounters with Prints” Aviva Campbell Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Savill Gallery, Sydney
2000 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
2004 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Chappel Galleries, Essex, England
2007 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Greythorn Galleries Melbourne
2009 Christopher Day Gallery Sydney
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
2012 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
PUBLICATIONS
‘Dictionary of Australian Art’, Alan McCullock
‘Australian Art 1975-1980’, Kim Bonython
‘The Art of the Boyds’, 1979 P Dobrez / P Herbst
‘Creating of Self Portraite’, T Coates / M Beazley
‘New Art Four’, Nevill Drury
‘An Antipodean Connection’ G Prampolini / MC / Hubert / Slatkine / Geneve
‘Modern Painters Autumn ‘92’
Boyd Dynasties ABC Television 2006
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artbank Australia, Mertz Collection, U.S.A, University of South Australia, University of Western Australia, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, B.H.P Australia, Boxer Collection, Australia, Tavistock Centre, London, UK, National Gallery of Victoria, Council of Adult Education, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK
