Madi Boyd graduated from the sculpture department of the Slade School of Fine Art (2005). She specialised in creating large-scale sculptures fused with digital projections. During her degree, she won the Gissings undergraduate scholarship as well as an exchange to the highly competitive Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Art and Science, New York City, where she studied sculpture under the renowned artist Hans Haacke.

Madi uses sculpture, light and digital media to create experiential environments that play with depth, perception and the connection between seeing and knowing. Her training as a sculptor has led her to investigate the sculpting of light: for her, a pitch-dark room serves as a blank canvas. Sculpting physical space as if it were matter, she uses perceptual ambiguity to create environments that perform.

For me, a blank canvas is a pitch dark room into which I sculpt light and space by combining built environments with projected video. I have made several works where the cinema screen is re-invented as sculpture and interacts with the film. My current work explores perception of movement and form in space. I am collaborating with neuroscientists at UCL to produce experimental arenas in order to explore the limits of human perception. These resist full comprehension of their form, making them compelling to view. People often report that they are mesmerised by my installations.

Madi Boyd, 2011

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