Jamie Boyd

JAMIE BOYD

Born 1948, Melbourne Victoria

Australian artist Jamie Boyd, belongs to the renowned Boyd art dynasty.

​Son of celebrated Australian artist Arthur Boyd, Jamie studied at the Central School of Art and Design in music and composition, graduating in 1960.
He has exhibited in Sydney and internationally in London, Germany, Holland and Italy.
His work is held by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania and Artbank, Sydney.
A monograph of Boyd’s work titled ‘Jamie Boyd – Paintings 1965 – 1980′ was published in 1980 and his work has featured in books on the work of the Boyd’s including Dobrez and Herbst’s ‘The Art of the Boyd’s’ in 1991 and Niall’s ‘The Boyd’s’ 2002.

Born in Melbourne, Jamie Boyd moved to London with his family as a young boy.

At the age of 17 he began painting full-time in London and trained at the Central School of Art and Design.

He held his first Australian exhibition in 1966 at the Bonython Galleries in Adelaide.

Since then he has exhibited regularly in Australia and throughout Europe.

His work is represented in public collections including Artbank Australia, Tavistock Centre London, National Gallery of Victoria amongst others.

He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and Europe including at Gallerie D’Eendt – Amsterdam; The Palazzo Strozzi – Florence; Christchurch Mansions – Ipswich, England; “Londinium” (Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery) and the City of London Festival.

An acknowledged master-colourist, Jamie Boyd’s paintings often have a lyrical dream-like quality.  The poetic qualities of Boyd’s paintings match the sensitive attention he gives to surface textures, while his vigorous, instinctive response to landscape is balanced by a sense of mischief.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘Return To The River’, Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
2021 ‘City Limits’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2019 ‘Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades’, Book
Launch and Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2016 ‘The 60s and 70s Until Present’, Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2015 ‘Pictures for an Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2015 ‘Notes for the Record’, Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat, VIC
2015 ‘Pictures for an Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2015 ‘Notes for the Record’, Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat, VIC
2014 ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2014   ‘For the love of art’, Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2013 ‘Indian Summer’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2010 ‘True realities’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
2009 Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2009 ‘Seven last words’, Commissioned painting for Haydn’s, City of London Festival, London Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
2007 Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
2004 Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London; Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Savill Gallery, Sydney
1997 ‘Reaching Beyond Time’, Galleria Aniela Fine Art, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
1997  ‘Encounters with Prints’, Aviva Campbell Gallery, Melbourne
1996 ‘Encounters with Prints’, Aviva Campbell Gallery, Melbourne; Stair Gallery, London; Galleria Aniela Fine Art, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
1995 Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney
1993 Chappel Steruton, London; Aviva Campbell Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Gillian Jason, London
1990 Boundary Gallery, London; Beaver Galleries, Canberra; Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, England
1989 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
1988 Boundary Gallery, London;  Savill Galleries, Sydney; Schubert Gallery, Surfers Paradise; New South Wales House, London
1987 New South Wales House, London
1986 Beaver Galleries, Canberra Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
1985 David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat, VIC Carriaggio Galllery, Palaia, Italy
1984 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1982 Australian Galleries, Melbourne Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
1981 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1980 Australian Galleries, Melbourne; New South Wales House, London; David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat, VIC 1979 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1978 Fine Arts Gallery, Perth
1977 Gallerie D’Eendt, Amsterdam
1976 Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle, NSW; Gallerie Kuppers, Neuss, Germany
1973 Skinner Galleries, Perth
1972 Drian Galleries, London; Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1971 Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle, NSW; Clytie Jessop Gallery, London
1970 Australian Galleries, Melbourne; Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
1969 Drian Galleries, London; Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
1968 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1967 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1966 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide

COLLECTIONS

Artbank, Australia
BHP, Australia
Boxer Collection, Australia
Council of Adult Education, Australia
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Tavistock Centre, London
University of South Australia, Adelaide
University of Western Australia, Perth

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bonython, Kim; ‘Australian Art 1975 – 80’
Coates, T and Beazley, M; ‘Creating a Self Portrait’
Drury, Nevill; ‘New Art Four’
Herbst, P and Dobrez, P; ‘The Art of the Boyd’s’
McCulloch, Alan; ‘Dictionary of Australian Art’