Image By: Arthur Boyd

Creator Spotlight:

Arthur Boyd

By: Ajay Woolery

For this week’s installation of our Creator Spotlight series, we meet 16y/o multidisciplinary artist Arthur Boyd. Having always had an interest in creative outputs, Arthur’s journey has taken him from the performing arts to fashion and photography. His extensive portfolio and works have been largely developed through independent inquiry and self-teaching, something he describes as an integral part of his development.

Image By: Arthur Boyd

AW:

Tell us about yourself and what you do?

AB: I’m a 16 year old fashion designer, photographer and artist, based in a small village outside of Oxford. I’ve been exploring a wide range of different mediums over the past 4-5 years, focussing mainly on fashion but recently branching out in to a host of new techniques and materials. I’m entirely self taught for the majority of my public work, but I also attend an Art and Design course at college in Oxford.

Image By: Arthur Boyd

AW:

Your work intersects a variety of mediums, What would you say has inspired this creative intuition?

AB: I’ve always been interested in creative outputs: I spent 9 years of my life in performing arts and dance, and only recently decided to focus solely on fashion and art. I think the freedom that I was given when dancing has played a large role in my creative process. I’m very instinctive when designing pieces, I don’t try to plan a piece out too strictly, and when I do I usually end up taking a drastic turn part way through the process. I also think the idea of theatricality and performance comes through in my designs, whether deliberately or not - it’s been engrained into me. Photography has come naturally to me as my Dad has always been interested in it as a hobby, so I’ve been lucky enough to have access to cameras. I’ve really started to delve in to film photography over the past few years, just documenting the world around me, whether that be at home, in London with friends, or on holidays. Obviously over the past year I’ve spent a lot of time surrounded by my home environment, and have really come to appreciate how lucky I am in where I live. I’ve been taking a sketchbook and my camera with me wherever I go, and seeing new beauty in objects and places I’d seen hundreds of times before. Recently I’ve also been exploring digital art and the use of machine learning to create art, as well as teaching myself sound design. At this moment in time I’m just trying to learn as much as possible before I have more serious responsibilities that take up my time.

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Published 9.7.21