"Alex Boyd's images represent a major addition to the tradition of modern landscape photography"
Robert Macfarlane, Author
Dr Alex Boyd is a landscape and documentary photographer, printmaker and writer.
His work is primarily concerned with landscape and our relationship with place. As a photographer his work has often incorporated antique approaches such as the Victorian wet-plate collodion process, used to great effect in his series The Point of the Deliverance.
In 2019 he was awarded a Daiwa Foundation Scholarship to work and photograph the Hida Mountains in Japan. Focusing on Mount Yari, this work was shortlisted for the Hariban Award. He was the Mountain Photographer of the Year at the Kendal Mountain Festival in 2013, the UK’s largest mountain festival. His work made on the Isle of Skye, and in the Outer Hebrides as the Royal Scottish Academy’s artist in Residence is currently held in several National Collections.
His work has been widely exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at the Scottish Parliament, as well as group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy.
His first book St Kilda – The Silent Islands was shortlisted for a Saltire Award, while his second The Isle of Rust (a collaboration with writer Jonathan Meades) was, like his first, named as a photography book of the year by The Scotsman. His third book The Point of the Deliverance received positive reviews from The British Journal of Photography and National Geographic among others. He has also published several smaller collaborative works, including ‘The Broken Land’ with Australian musician and writer Nick Cave.
He is a Fellow of the National Library of Scotland, The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and the Royal Society of Art as well as an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London.
Boyd has written for Art North, Archipelago, The Modernist and several other publications and is working towards his first collection of writing.
WORK REPRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS:
The National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Photographic Society, The National Media Museum, The University of Glasgow, St Andrews University, North Ayrshire Council, Dumfries & Galloway Council, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, The University of the Highlands & Islands, Highland Print Studio, Cape Farewell, The Scottish Maritime Museum, NHS Greater Glasgow & New South Glasgow Hospitals, BC Partners, Cigna, The Yale Center for British Art, The V&A
Alex Boyd by Brian David Stevens