Who are The Boyle Family?

Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills met in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1957. Joan studied art and architecture as well as bringing up her first son Cameron whilst running her own business. Mark was in the army writing poetry. Wherever Mark and Joan lived became their studio. After a period of working separately on visual art pieces, they moved into a collaboration whilst also agreeing that art should not exclude anything as a potential subject. Originally the work went under Mark Boyle’s name, largely because Mark and Joan were more concerned with making their work than attempting to fight the stereotype that artists were solo and usually male. Labels never mattered to them. It was the work that was important, not their image or personal recognition.