ART: PRIVATE VIEW
Boyle Family 24a Calvin Street, London E1
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Your support makes all the difference.Anyone who has looked at all at British art over the last 40 years will probably be familiar with the work of the Boyle family - they who make perfect reproductions of a randomly-chosen square of the earth's surface in painted fibreglass. They have been doing it since 1964, in which time the team of Mark Boyle and Joan Hills has expanded to include their son Sebastian and daughter Georgia.
In fact, as a family, they've been a bit quiet over the last few years: their last London exhibition was in 1991 and, as far as I know, that was their most recent anywhere until last year's show in the unlikely location of Compton Verney. This from the family who once represented Britain at the Biennales in both Venice and Sao Paulo.
The recent quietness may have something to do with the fact that the children have been doing other things: working in other mediums and, in the case of Sebastian, opening one of London's more fashionable pubs. Yet as a new exhibition demonstrates they are still very much the Boyle Family, still working as a team and still refining the techniques behind their singular "Journey to the Surface of the Earth" with ever more extraordinary results.
The Boyle Family, 24a Calvin Street, London E1 (0171-375 3135) to 27 June
Richard Ingleby
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