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TE2/1975/1

Boyd & Evans Artist Talk 1975

Fionnula Boyd B.1944) studied at Leeds University, and Leslie Evans (B.1945) at Leeds College of Art. They began working together in 1968. In order to disguise their individual ‘handwriting’ in these jointly produced paintings, Boyd and Evans used a spray-gun to deliver highly photorealist images. They discuss content and image exhaustively before working on a canvas, and are united in their intellectual approach, which has an affinity with surrealism – the juxtaposition of unrelated images forging a new idea. They later introduced freer brushwork, which, through their drawings, has become so alike as to be indistinguishable.

Date Recorded: 1975

Length: 32 min, 28 sec

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Peer-led discussion and artist talk. Begins with close-up of Boyd talking, general discussion in the room prior to presentation. The two artists are sitting at a table, with a small audience facing them. Large room (probably rear gallery space) with paintings on the wall behind them, projector set up for slides. Footage is quite filmic in its editing, with audible clicks at the point between 2 shots, suggesting it was edited on the spot. Camera techniques such as close-ups and adjusting focus employed regularly. Speech audible but sound quality not great throughout due to a large amount of noise. Ends with a question from the audience, cut off mid-sentence.