Jonathan Boyd

Jonathan Boyd (born Aberdeen, 1984) is a Scottish artist, jeweller, writer and practice-led researcher. He is the Head of Programme, Applied Art (Jewellery and Metal /Ceramics and Glass), at the Royal College of Art in London, where he is also Reader in Jewellery.. Jonathan is an active practitioner and researcher in areas of jewellery, metal art and design, applied art, wider interdisciplinary arts and creative writing, where his art works have investigated relations of language, narrative, place, and communication.
Jonathan is the Co-Lead of the Materials Engagements cluster in the School of Arts and Humanities at the RCA and has led major K.E projects, including the design, creation, and manufacture of the 2014 Commonwealth Games medals
==Education and Academia==
Jonathan studied Silversmithing and Jewellery at The Glasgow School of Art (2002-2006) where he was awarded a first class honours degree, before completing an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Jewellery and Metalwork at The Royal College of Art in 2009. Jonathan has worked as lecturer and researcher at GSA (2009-2017), before being appointed Senior Tutor (Jewellery and Metal), and then Head of Applied Art (2021-) at the RCA.
==Artworks==
Jonathan is best known for his jewellery works which directly integrate formats of text and jewellery as cohesive artefacts of creative writing. This line of enquiry has driven his practice for over 10 years and his works have been noted as a leading synthesis of these art forms. Inspiration for his jewellery practice takes inspiration from contemporary philosophy and social theory with a particular early emphasis on the literary philosophy of Jaques Derrida, and, more recently an interest in the philosophy of Giles Delueze and concept of emergence.In the production of artworks Jonathan utilises a mix of methods across the digital/analogue spectrum, influenced by the fictioning concept of mythotechnesis, objects are developed and critiqued for narrative/storying feedback loops of digital collaboration and distributed practices. Approaches pan across modes of digital production, AI GAN, digital 2D and 3D animation, moving image, photogrammetry, sound experimentation, subtractive and additive manufacturing, industrial printing process alongside more traditional making and tooling practices.
==Exhibitions and Collections==
Jonathan has exhibited in major public group shows including: China International Metal Art Exhibition (2023 & 2013), The Brooch Unpinned(2021), Chain (2016) and Subversive Design (2013).
Through major solo shows Boyd has further investigated the role of jewellery as scoio-political communicator (Thoughts Between the Land and the Sea: Raising the Doggerland, Gallery SO, 2019) and the ways in which narratives emerge and create form, meaning (often asemically) (Emergent Dialogues of the Topophillic Line, Gallery Marzee, 2022)
The artworks of Boyd are held in private and publication collection internationally including Boston Museum of Fine Arts (USA), The V&A Museum (UK), The National Museum of Scotland (UK), The SchmuckMuseum (Germany), Spencer Museum (USA), Nelson-Atkins Museum (USA), Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (USA), Glasgow Museums (UK), The Worshipful Company of Goldsmith’s, The Royal College of Art and Glasgow School of Art.
Jonathan is represented by Gallery Marzee in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Category:1984 births
Category:People from Aberdeen
Category:Scottish people
Category:Artists
Category:Jewellers
Category:Writers