Chris Boyd (Artist & Director)

Chris Boyd is a draughtsman who creates videos that are painterly outpourings that integrate traditional techniques that date back to the Renaissance with modern computer animation. Boyd works in narrative that draws upon autobiography, psychology and mythology that mixes memory, metaphor, fact and fiction. The majority of these are based on creation and transformative processes that reference and / or attempt to address subjects like transhumanism and accelerating change.

Chris Boyd was born in 1983 in Warrington and was an Interactive Arts student at Manchester Metropolitan from 2003-2006. In 2004 Chris received a Microwave award from FACT, the UK's leading organisation for the development and exhibition of film, video and new media. He won the Big Art Challenge, where he was labelled a genius by art critic Brian Sewell, the 6 part series on channel 5 was aiming to seek out the next Damien Hirst or JMW Turner with a prize of £10,000. In 2005 Chris received a Priestley prize and provided a video in 40 artists 40 Days, a special Tate Britain project supporting London's Olympic bid that brought the Games to Britain in 2012. He curated the Chaosmos exhibition for the Liverpool Biennial 2006.