Before Midday

by Miranda Boulton

Boulton takes her inspiration from the Internet, which she uses as a sketchbook. She is drawn to traditional genres of images such as still life. Often within her titles she references temporal and sequential themes. She uses paint to add layers of time and contemplation to these images, making them tactile and personal. She starts with line drawings, which dissolve through a process of layering and accrual. Within her painted mark making there is an emphasis on line made with an energetic and gestural quality. These lines often leak out into blocked out areas of flat colour, which function as windows to the layers underneath where t he paintings development is left exposed and evident.


Born 1973 Cambridge, England Lives and works in London/Cambridge ARTISTIC TRAINING 2012 - 2015: Turps Banana Art School - Correspondence Course 1991 - 1994: Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Art History FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2015 October 27th - November 2nd 'Off Line / On Line', Miranda Boulton, Suzanne Holtum, Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London 2016 January 'Fulcrum', Groups Show of Four Painters, ARB, Cambridge University SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 'Lost in the Middle', New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge 2011 'Outside In', Madame Lillies Gallery, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Firstsite Open Exhibition, Colchester, Essex The Zap Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London 2014 'Red Xmas', Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London 'Correspond', Turps Art School, London The Zap Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London 2013 'Cloud Chambers', Mayors Parlour Gallery, London The Zap Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London 2009 'All Things Said', The Shop Gallery, Cambridge 2008 'Long Road 10', Cambridge 2006 'Art in Mind', ADI Projects, Shoreditch, London PRIZES AND AWARDS 2011 Salon Art Prize 2011, Matt Roberts Arts, London Selected by Pippa Hale, Patricia Bickers and Robert Leckie Artworks Open 2011, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London Selected by Graham Crowley and Kiera Bennett 2010 Artworks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London Selected by Graham Crowley and Timothy Hyman PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS 2015 'Off Line / On Line' - Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Jessica Lack 2014 Turps Banana - Issue 14, July 2014 Artists Newsletter - 'Correspond', Review by Charley Peters 'Correspond' - Exhibition Catalogue 2012 Lucy Wilson - Interview, www.lucywilson.org.uk Changing Spaces - Interview, www.changing-spaces.org 2011 Artists Newsletter - 'Outside In', Preview in Snapshot 2009 The Guardian Guide - 'All Things Said', Preview by Skye Sherwin