Contemporary Art

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I'm starting a website, and it will include an array of inspiring artists and their art from mostly the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I want to also include a space to explore crafts and indigenous arts from cultures across the globe, and into historical times from basket weaving, to body tattoos. In my research thus far I've experienced a lot of fantastic art. One piece of the art world I will tap into here today includes a family of artists. They operate together under the name Boyle Family. This clan included. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia.

Boyle Family aims to make art that does not exclude anything as a potential subject. Over the years, subjects have included: earth, air, fire and water; animals, vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles, water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body. The media used have included performances and events; films and projections; sound recordings; photography; electron-microphotography; drawing; assemblage; painting; sculpture and installation.

They were also making up the light and stage shows for Jimi Hendrix back in the day.

....in their work they try to isolate and reduce randomly chosen elements to as truthful an approximation as is within their power.

Their work is largely about trying to release themselves and their audience from pre-conditioning or prejudice.

‘We also want to be able to look at anything without discovering in it our mothers' womb, our lovers' thighs, the possibility of handsome profit or even the makings of an effective work of art. We don't want to find in it memories of places where we suffered joy and anguish or tenderness or laughter. We want to see without motive and without reminiscence this cliff, this street, this field, this rock, this earth.’