Gabriella Boyd – Pressers

CAMPLE LINE is delighted to present Presser, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Gabriella Boyd.

Installed across both floors of our building, the exhibition will include a group of new works on canvas and paper painted over the last year, and these will build upon selected existing paintings. It will be Gabriella’s first solo show in a public gallery and her first in Scotland. A newly commissioned short essay by Yates Norton, curator at the Roberts Institute of Art, will accompany the exhibition.

Of the new work she is making for Presser, Gabriella has said, “I seem to be arriving at places that feel like a heightened sensory perception of an environment. Spaces which hold anatomy in the centre of them. Like the space is being seen through the lens of a body.” 

Her new canvases will bring together elements familiar across her wider body of work – the human presence, narrative fragments, evocation of interior states and references to the built and natural worlds – which will take on a distinct charge in relation to Cample’s domestic scale and rural setting. 

The exhibition’s title – ‘Presser’ – evokes that sense of conflation, of spaces and sensations, of interior and exterior, of the flattening out of form and environment that are key elements of Gabriella’s painting process. Working across multiple canvases, Gabriella will make a final selection for the exhibition.