Martin Boyce

Glasgow-based Martin Boyce reworks and references the textures and forms of the built urban environment. Using the iconography of the everyday alongside the formal and conceptual histories of modern architecture and design, his sculptures and immersive environments form poetic landscapes. In an extended act of homage, deconstruction and re-imagining, Boyce has most notably referenced Jan and Joël Martel’s concrete trees of 1925. From these structures, Boyce developed a typography and a consistent lexicon of shapes which feed into his sculptural practice. 

^{Martin Boyce, Installation view ‘night terrace - lantern chains - forgotten seas - sky’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photography Keith Hunter}

^{Martin Boyce, Installation view ‘Turner Prize 2011’, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photo Colin Davison}

^{Martin Boyce, Installation view ‘No Reflections’, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2009 
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photo Gilmar Ribeiro}