LAZY-EIGHT, A NEW DESIGN PROJECT BY ARTIST MARTIN BOYLE INCORPORATING HIS INTEREST IN ART, DESIGN, GEOMETRY AND ASTRONOMY. INFLUENCED BY IDEAS FROM EUPHORIC AND DARK ROMANTICISM, RECENT WORK HAS PROBED THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT SCIENCE TELLS US AND WHAT WE TELL OURSELVES. HE CREATES CONCEPTUAL ARTWORKS ACROSS DIVERSE MEDIUMS, INCLUDING INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, AND SITE-SPECIFIC PIECES.
ARTIST BIO
Martin Boyle lives and works in Belfast. He completed a Masters of Fine Art at Ulster University (2008) and a BA in Sculpture from Limerick School of Art and Design. His solo exhibitions include NO:TIME, MCAC, Portadown, Northern Ireland (2020) ; Snap!, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland (2016); Human Body’ Accident, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2015); and Everything’s Connected, Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland (2021); Urgencies, CCA, Derry/Londonderry (2021), UK MAW, Middlesbrough, UK (2018); ART WORKS, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2017); These Days are Persistent and Changeable, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2016); Diagrams, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2015); and The Existence of Flamethrowers in Your Street, G126, Galway, Ireland (2015).
Tessellation 04, 2022, Martin Boyle, 37.6cm (h) x 28cm (w), laser engraved birch plywood, acrylic paint.
Work in progress at The Distillers Press Dublin, 2019.
Truchet 01, 2022, Martin Boyle, 18.5cm (h) x 18.5cm (w), tiles, acrylic paint, particle board.
LAZY EIGHT (Martin Boyle) process shot from his studio, Flax Art Studios, 2022.
LAZY-EIGHT SPECIALISES IN PRODUCING VIBRANT TILED ARTWORKS OF GEOMETRIC FORMS AND TESSELLATED PATTERNS THAT ARE DIGITALLY DESIGNED AND CUT, THEN PAINTED AND ASSEMBLED BY HAND. THE TITLE OF THE PROJECT REFERS TO THE INFINITY SYMBOL OFTEN DESCRIBED AS A HORIZONTAL FIGURE OF EIGHT, WHICH IN LIVESTOCK BRANDING TERMINOLOGY IS CALLED A LAZY EIGHT.
End-Less, 2022, Martin Boyle, 19cm (h) x 19cm (w), tiles, acrylic paint, particle board.
