Local residents can buy a ticket for the new Boyd & Evans exhibition at MK Gallery for just £1, saving up to £10.50.
The exhibition runs until 27 September and is the first major survey of artist duo Boyd & Evans in over a decade, marking fifty-five years of their collaboration.
In 1980 Boyd (Fionnuala Boyd) & Evans (Les Evans) were commissioned to make work by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation. They were then invited back as artists in residence and have remained ever since.
One of their best-known pieces, Fiction, Non-fiction and Reference (1984) situated in the Central Library, is treasured by Milton Keynes residents.
The exhibition focuses on paintings, spanning their careers from the 1960s to today.
It displays many of their experiments: from collage and stencil to spray-gun and brushes; surreal dramas that unfold in domestic, urban and suburban settings; and visual games between the real and artificial.
It includes satirical political work, much loved scenes of Milton Keynes and epic depictions of the natural world in the USA, Malaysia and Brunei.
Working closely with the artists, the exhibition at MK Gallery will be a retrospective of their 55-year career featuring over 80 paintings, as well as showcasing new work. A major catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with newly commissioned essays and extended commentaries on each
work.
“Coming for a year, forty years ago, we are still here by choice, and delighted to show work we have done from the last 55 years, in a splendid gallery, in ‘our’ city.” – Boyd & Evans, April 2023
Find more information and opening times at https://mkgallery.org/event/boyd-evans/.
