Max Boyla
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1991
Max Boyla (b. 1991, Edinburgh) is a Scottish artist based in London who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2023. Holding to a tradition that sees painting as an illusion, Boyla’s work exists in a perpetual limbo: a space where the limited and real world mingles with the eternal and fictional.
His satin surfaces, a synthetic material derived as a petroleum byproduct, create tension, offering a lustre towards abstract cosmologies. Shorn of all sense of time and place, fantasies of the infinite collide with a questioning of a contemporary state of disillusionment.
Works
Candlepower
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
Candlepower
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
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Dust at dawn
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
Dust at dawn
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
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Shine and softness
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
Shine and softness
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
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Pearls of the sky
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
Pearls of the sky
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
140 x 200 cm
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Break (i)
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
Break (i)
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
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Break (ii)
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
Break (ii)
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
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Break (iii)
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
Break (iii)
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
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Boya (i)
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
Boya (i)
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic, lustre and bleach on satin
130 x 140 cm
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Empty (crushed)
Screen print on folded steel
35 x 20 x 10 cm
Empty (crushed)
Max Boyla
Screen print on folded steel
35 x 20 x 10 cm
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Look on the bright side
Poster, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 190 cm
Look on the bright side
Max Boyla
Poster, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 190 cm
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Luna del diablo
Dye, pigment and salt on satin
130 x 190 cm
Luna del diablo
Max Boyla
Dye, pigment and salt on satin
130 x 190 cm
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Lake of fire
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
200 x 280 cm
Lake of fire
Max Boyla
Dye, acrylic and bleach on satin
200 x 280 cm
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Unmasked
Glazed ceramic
50 x 50 x 8 cm
Unmasked
Max Boyla
Glazed ceramic
50 x 50 x 8 cm
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This is not a shell
Glazed ceramic
50 x 50 x 8 cm
This is not a shell
Max Boyla
Glazed ceramic
50 x 50 x 8 cm
