01/06/2026
BECS BOYD Turtle Dove 5 June- 4 July
This collection of ten works by Becs Boyd are inspired by a long distance walk in Romania and Moldova during 2025, and the frescos, wildlife and people encountered enroute - especially the turtle dove that migrates borderlessly from Ukraine south to the Sahel.
Boyd’s work has always used icon-like symbols - a bird or seal, a shell, a memory - but in previous bodies of work inspiration has been from Norway and the far north. With Turtle Dove, inspiration is from frescos and a very different, very current, history. This seems natural to Boyd, and the weaving together of her icons is not dark, but notices the beautiful, the dreamlike and the song of the turtle dove.
https://www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/532-turtle-dove-new-work-by-becs-boyd/