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An Evening with Boyd & Evans
05 Jul 2023
MK Gallery
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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Photo by Rob Harris
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Photo by Rob Harris
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Photo by Rob Harris
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Photo by Rob Harris
Exhibition
Boyd & Evans: High Time
27 May 2023 – 17 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Adult £11.50
Concessions (Jobseeker, full time student & reg. disabled) £8.50
Art Fund Pass £5.75
Members / Under 26s / Accompanying Carers Free
Milton Keynes Residents £1
Pay What You Can £3 / £5 / £9 / £12 / £15 every Sunday
Address
- 900 Midsummer Boulevard
- Central Milton Keynes MK9 3QA
- Milton Keynes
- MK9 3QA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Local Buses: Frequent daily buses run from Central Bus Station and Milton Keynes Central rail station stops on Midsummer Boulevard outside MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Theatre.
- Nearest station: Milton Keynes Central
Event map
This first major survey of artist duo Boyd & Evans in over a decade marks fifty-five years of their collaboration.
About
The exhibition focuses on paintings, spanning their careers from the 1960s to today. It displays many of their experiments: from collage and stencil to spray-gun and brushes; surreal dramas that unfold in domestic, urban and suburban settings; and visual games between the real and artificial. It includes satirical political work, much loved scenes of Milton Keynes and epic depictions of the natural world in the USA, Malaysia and Brunei.
In 1980 Boyd (Fionnuala Boyd) & Evans (Les Evans) were commissioned to make work by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation. They were then invited back as artists in residence and have remained ever since. One of their best-known pieces, Fiction, Non-fiction and Reference (1984) situated in the Central Library, is treasured by Milton Keynes residents.
