Sobel Edge , 2025
72 x 86 cm
Hand embroidered and quilted UV print on polyester, oil monotype on taffeta, hand dyed linen, calico, cotton, wadding and thread
Adam Boyd
Featured in Surface Tension, 2025
Emblematic of the pursuit of Hot Sheet and continuation of previous exhibitions, Adam Boyd’s work draws on the ephemeral and immaterial. He transforms how we understand photography , not just as an image, but as an art form.
In Sobel Edge and Phoebe Ring, he reimagines cosmic phenomena within everyday settings, creating richly textured works that bridge the mundane with the familiar. These pieces reveal his distinctive talent for blending digital imagery with fine art processes, inviting a deeper emotional and sensory engagement with photography.
Artist Bio
The content Boyd is drawn to, tends to embrace the fugitive, immaterial or ethereal. He employs diverse craft-biased channels, in order to materialise these fleeting observations. Boyd often documents phenomena refracted by the urban environment, permeating the domestic. His research orbits pop cultural & art historical content which, in turn, harbour traces of much wider philosophical and scientific debate. A fascination with the tropes of science- fiction has become an internal filter for the quasi-ecclesiastic, supernatural imagery he favours. Boyd aims to situate his practice as a syncretic testbed, where ideas and processes coexist and cross-pollinate.
Adam has recently completed an MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art, London and holds a Bachelor’s from Glasgow School of Art (2016). During his studies he was selected for the Euan Uglow Scholarship and the George & Cordelia Oliver Scholarship. Boyd has generated three solo exhibitions for venues in Glasgow, Solaristics (2018), Synthespians (2019), and Causal Thread (2022). In 2021, Strand Systems, Boyd’s first solo showing outside of the UK, opened in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. The show represented the culmination of Boyd’s month-long residency at SÍM, Reykjavík in August 2021. During 2023, Boyd generated two solo exhibitions in London, Synchronisations and Protubs, the latter of which was supported by The Eaton Fund. Individual works have been exhibited in several group exhibitions in the UK and abroad (Seoul, Tokyo, Hokkaido, New York, Reykjavik). Adam was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. In October 2024, Boyd presented his first solo exhibition in Asia, Collider, with ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul. During the summer of 2025, Boyd will participate in the SARUYA Artist Residency based in Fujiyoshida, Japan.