Hi, I'm David Boyd and I’m an artist, teacher, and trained architect based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. My work explores the relationships and tensions that lie between architectural drawing and fine art practice.
All of my drawings are hand drawn using a traditional A1 architectural drawing board, using pen, pencil, and adjustable set square. They are produced employing an approach inspired by the philosophical notions of Dadaism, Constructivism, and Pataphysics. With this approach, each drawing is a result of an unplanned process, with no preconceived end point in mind. The logic and rationale for each drawing is developed and established while the drawing is being constructed, through a slow process of spatial, formal, and compositional negotiation. The end point may result in an abstract visual archive of architectural thinking, whilst others may manifest into far more literal projections of a possible architecture. There is always a reason for a drawing, but never an aim.
The passion that drives my work is the desire to explore and create projections which question the notion of interpretation and readability in architectural drawing. I aim to create work which requires the viewer to, firstly, orientate themselves within the composition, and, secondly, to spatially explore the series of vectors and forms. The drawings are an offering to the viewer for them to inhabit and contextualise for themselves, constructing an architectural imaginary from one’s own interpretative sub-conscious
MY TRAINING
During the time I was studying for my fine art degree, from which I graduated in 2006, I developed a passion for Constructivist art, with a particular interest in Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist / Architekton studies. My interest in such work inspired me to then pursue architecture, and, in 2010, I began the long process of studying to become an architect, graduating in 2018.
I have previously practised architecture in Bristol, UK, and, currently, teach as an architectural design tutor on the Masters in Architecture programme at Newcastle University. Alongside this, I am also studying for a PhD, which scrutinises the philosophical roles and mechanisms of architectural representation within the context of the ocular methods of hand drawn parallel projection.
