Jonathan Boyd
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Jonathan Boyd (born Aberdeen, 1984) is a Scottish artist, jeweller, writer and practice-led researcher. He is the Head of Programme, Applied Art (Jewellery and Metal /Ceramics and Glass), at the Royal College of Art in London, where he is also Reader in Jewellery.[1]. Jonathan is an active practitioner and researcher in areas of jewellery, metal art and design, applied art, wider interdisciplinary arts and creative writing, where his art works have investigated relations of language, narrative, place, and communication.
Jonathan is the Co-Lead of the Materials Engagements cluster in the School of Arts and Humanities at the RCA and has led major K.E projects, including the design, creation, and manufacture of the 2014 Commonwealth Games medals[2][3]
Education and Academia[edit]
Jonathan studied Silversmithing and Jewellery at The Glasgow School of Art (2002-2006) where he was awarded a first class honours degree, before completing an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Jewellery and Metalwork at The Royal College of Art in 2009. Jonathan has worked as lecturer and researcher at GSA (2009-2017), before being appointed Senior Tutor (Jewellery and Metal), and then Head of Applied Art (2021-) at the RCA.
Artworks[edit]
Jonathan is best known for his jewellery works which directly integrate formats of text and jewellery as cohesive artefacts of creative writing. This line of enquiry has driven his practice for over 10 years and his works have been noted as a leading synthesis of these art forms. Inspiration for his jewellery practice takes inspiration from contemporary philosophy and social theory with a particular early emphasis on the literary philosophy of Jaques Derrida, and, more recently an interest in the philosophy of Giles Delueze and concept of emergence. Often works explore aspects of socio-cultural or socio-political issues, of this practice, Sarah Rothwell, Senior Curator at the National Museum of Scotland has commented:
"By creating jewels tightly packed with text reminiscent of the type blocks employed by printers of political pamphlets and propaganda material before digital printing, Boyd is no passive observer. Like the countercultural jewellers before him, he can be placed within a lineage of satirists who challenge society by ridiculing the language used by those in positions of power." [4]
In the production of artworks Jonathan utilises a mix of methods across the digital/analogue spectrum, influenced by the fictioning concept of mythotechnesis, objects are developed and critiqued for narrative/storying feedback loops of digital collaboration and distributed practices. Approaches pan across modes of digital production, AI GAN, digital 2D and 3D animation, moving image, photogrammetry, sound experimentation, subtractive and additive manufacturing, industrial printing process alongside more traditional making and tooling practices.
Exhibitions and Collections[edit]
Jonathan has exhibited in major public group shows including: China International Metal Art Exhibition (2023[5] & 2013), The Brooch Unpinned(2021[6]), Chain (2016[7]) and Subversive Design (2013).
Through major solo shows Boyd has further investigated the role of jewellery as scoio-political communicator (Thoughts Between the Land and the Sea: Raising the Doggerland, Gallery SO, 2019[8]) and the ways in which narratives emerge and create form, meaning (often asemically) (Emergent Dialogues of the Topophillic Line, Gallery Marzee[9][10], 2022)
The artworks of Boyd are held in private and publication collection internationally including Boston Museum of Fine Arts (USA)[11], The V&A Museum (UK)[12], The National Museum of Scotland[13] [13](UK), The SchmuckMuseum (Germany), Spencer Museum (USA)[14][15][16], Nelson-Atkins Museum (USA)[17][18], Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (USA), Glasgow Museums (UK), The Worshipful Company of Goldsmith’s, The Royal College of Art and Glasgow School of Art.
Jonathan is represented by Gallery Marzee in Nijmegen[19], The Netherlands.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Jonathan Boyd". RCA Website. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014: Jonathan Boyd to design Commonwealth Games medals". BBC News. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ Creating the Commonwealth Medals | Behind The Games, retrieved 2023-08-10
- ↑ Rothwell, Sarah (10 August 2023). "Not So Hidden Messages" (PDF). Jewellery Studies: The Journal of the Society of Jewellery Historians: ppg.14–15.
- ↑ Klimt02.net. "Klimt02.net. Integration: Ancient & Modern. The 5th China International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition". klimt02.net. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "The Brooch Unpinned: The Goldsmiths' Company Collection 1961-2021 - Understanding Jewellery". Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "CHAIN | 8 April - 5 June 2016". Gallery SO. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Jonathan Boyd | 6 - 29 September 2019". Gallery SO. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Jonathan BoydEmergent Dialogues of the Topophilic Line10 April until 15 June 2022 – Galerie Marzee". www.marzee.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Marzee Magazine 129 – Galerie Marzee". www.marzee.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Possible narratives from an empty space #1".
- ↑ Boyd, Jonathan (2015), All my own words and thoughts, retrieved 2023-08-10
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Very Little Common Ground". National Museums Scotland. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Contructivism (brooch)". spencerartapps.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "lapel pin". spencerartapps.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "lapel pin". spencerartapps.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "TO SORN: 5 miles in and sunny skies". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Heirloom for an heiress to not much but love". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ↑ "Jonathan Boyd – Galerie Marzee". www.marzee.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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