Kathy Boyle is a New Zealand printmaker whose work frequently pushes the accepted boundaries of traditional printmaking, challenging the notion of the 2-dimensional print and that print and paper are inexorably bound together. She uses a variety of materials, paper, plaster, metal, selecting the medium best able to express and interpret her thoughts and ideas. Her immediate rural and coastal surroundings strongly influence her work.
Boyle has been printmaking for 20 years, is a founding member and Chair of the Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand. An experienced teacher, she has delivered printmaking and mixed media workshops for artists, teachers in New Zealand, Australia and Wales, UK.
Her work is held collections in New Zealand, The British Library, State Library (Mitchell) NSW, State Library Queensland, Burnie Regional Art Gallery Tasmania, Aratoi Regional Gallery, Museum NZ as well as private collections in Australia, U.K, U.S.A
Artist Statement
“I am an experimental printmaker. The printmaking process provides the starting point and methods and techniques for my practice, but I am not interested in reproducing an exact image or making editions of prints. It is the unique quality of the printmaking process with the inexhaustible range of possibilities it offers that excites me as an artist.”