Oscar Marcus Boyle
Oscar Marcus Boyle’s work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, poetry, and comics-writing. His work engages deeply with visual history, and covers topics such as sustainability, phenomenology, climate anxiety, neurodivergence, narrative, and the structures of visual representation.
Ship of Fools
‘Ship of Fools’ takes Hieronymous Bosch’s depiction of the medieval icon of the same name, which shows a boat full of various kinds of fools and lunatics who have used for the sail of their ship a tree. In this painting, the boat is emptied out and set at the edge of a green sea which oscillates between representation and materiality.
Matrix
‘Matrix’ is a largescale wall-hung sculpture incorporating found materials, oil paint, watercolour, collage, found and written text, etc. to form a kaleidoscopic view of visual history, experience, problematised authorship, child-and-parenthood, and more.
Fear of Toasters
This piece is part of the artist’s ongoing project about the cultural history of bread. This particular painting-on-found-breadboard examines the moment when bread pops out of a toaster and people and everyone is startled. Wheat grain has been added to the oil paint to add texture, and the painting is displayed flat (and protruding from the wall) to reaffirm the support’s intended orientation, flat on a counter with bread sitting on awaiting slicing.
Self Portrait in the Seventh Circle
‘Self Portrait in the Seventh Circle’ comprises a self portrait in oil on the knot of a found tree trunk. The work references one of William Blake’s illustrations for Dante’s Inferno called ‘The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides’. It explores the perception (both of self and other) and experience of mental illness. For further explanation of this work please follow the instagram link above and read the accompanying caption to the piece.
