Gwen Boyle
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Gwen Boyle was born in Vancouver in 1929, grew up in Chinatown, and lived for many years in the Yukon. She studied at the Vancouver School of Art and pursued further sculpture studies under Jack Harman, graduating with honours in bronze casting in 1975. While she has made smaller works, her interest has always been in large scale, interactive sculptures—which she has explored most extensively in her public art commissions. Boyle enjoys the challenge of making public art: from the historic research of site, engineering problem solving, and the knowledgeable and enthusiastic specialists she works alongside during the long creative process. In 1989, Boyle was fortunate to spend time again in the North, this time travelling all the way to Resolute, in Canada’s high arctic, as part of the Polar Shelf Artist-in-Residence Program. This was a significant experience in her life and career, and the memory of that landscape and human impact on it has stayed with her ever since. From 1984 to 2020, Boyle worked out of a studio at 1000 Parker Street in Vancouver.Adapted from Gwen Boyle, 2024
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