Last Chance: Frank Boyle – Recovering the Beauty in Barrenness

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Pilgrimage by Frank Boyle, showing at the Gallery Mercure July 2013, is a unique and beautiful experience that explores life and culture through pieces that hold a unique emotional simplicity.

Although he was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960, Frank Boyle has been living in Australia since 1982. He began art studies at Seaforth Tafe in 1997 and then decided to study art full time at the National Art School, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

From 2008-2009, Boyle lived and painted in the midst of bustling Mumbai, India. This period of time instigated Pilgrimage. He was immediately inspired by the sights and smells, but even more so by the colour and culture that Mumbai offered to his work.

“This group of paintings was far removed from the limited palette of the atmospheric, minimalist landscapes I’d been painting before going to India,” tells Boyle. His works in Pilgrimage reflect his awareness of the many individuals he described as “seemingly oblivious to the constant noise and movement around them.”

Frank Boyle– Carry The Load Pilgrimage

The paintings in Pilgrimage have evolved from extended periods of deliberate observation of the culture surrounding him, to give what he describes as a feeling of “solitude and mystery.”

Through the simple composition of the pieces in Pilgrimage, Boyle has produced a beautifully crafted, meditative effect, that takes an audience beyond the image and into deeper contemplation of culture and emotion.

“No two people will experience Pilgrimage in the same way.” – Frank Boyle