Max Boyla is a Scottish artist based in London, UK, who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2023.
Holding to a tradition that sees painting as an illusion, Boyla’s work can exist in a perpetual limbo: a place where the limited and real world mingles with the eternal and fictional. His satin surfaces, a synthetic material derived as a petroleum by product, create tension, offering a lustre towards abstract cosmologies. Shorn of all sense of time and place, fantasies of the infinite collide with a questioning of a contemporary state of disillusionment.
Boyla’s recent exhibitions include: ‘The Smoke That Thunders’ (solo), Tube Gallery, Palma, Spain (2023); ‘Double Take’ (group), LVH, London, UK (2024); ‘Crying like a fire in the sun’ (solo) Workplace, London, UK (2024); ‘Slow Motion’ (duo) Des Bains, London, UK (2023); ‘Slivers in the Void’ (group), Mamoth, London, UK (2023); ‘Add More Fuel To Your Life’ (solo) Sim Smith, London, UK (2023); and ‘Inside Out’ (group) The Artist Room, London, UK (2022).