 .jpeg) Book LaunchThursday 5 June, 5–7PM Please join us to celebrate the launch of Lynne Boyd: Liminal, edited by Sheridan Palmer. The Australian artist Lynne Boyd (1953–2022) was known for her hazy, haunting paintings and prints of solitary figures and fleeting moments and her romantic abstraction of the liminal and the oceanic. Like few other artists of her time and place, Boyd was able to capture what art historian Rosalind Hollinrake calls the “material presence of the immaterial." Boyd began as a self-taught landscape artist in the mid-1970s and developed her uncanny representation of boats, bridges and misty seascapes of Port Phillip Bay during the 1980s. Peter Booth considered her works from this period among the best to emerge from the Victorian College of the Arts, and over the next three-and-a-half decades she obtained a beauty and poetic depth in artworks depicting the irreducible elements of land, sea, and sky. Her work has affinities with the Australian modernist Clarice Beckett, the surreal expressionist Georgia O’Keefe, and the quiet minimalism of Agnes Martin. This lavishly illustrated overview of Lynne Boyd’s life and art includes essays by Tim Bass, Vivien Gaston, Rosalind Hollinrake, Leah Kaminsky, Kate and Charles Nodrum and Jason Smith. An exhibition, also titled Lynne Boyd: Liminal, will be held at Charles Nodrum Gallery from 31 May–21 June, 2025. The gallery will hold a book launch and opening celebration on Thursday 5 June, 5-7pm, with an introduction from Geoffrey Edwards. Copyright © 2023 Index Press Inc., All rights reserved.
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