Before Behind Between Above Below Martin Boyce

This book is published in celebration of the sculpture of Martin Boyce on the occasion of a major exhibition at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in 2024 that brings together works from throughout his career.

The book includes three newly commissioned essays. Novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell brings to his reading of Boyce’s work a breadth of cultural reference that matches the artist’s own. Curator and writer Penelope Curtis draws on her extensive knowledge of modern and contemporary art and architecture to place Boyce in new and insightful contexts. Curator and writer Katrina M. Brown shares an unparalleled understanding of Boyce’s work developed over thirty years of friendship with the artist.

These essays, together with extensive installation imagery of the Fruitmarket exhibition and of several exhibitions from the years leading up to it, and characteristic interventions from Boyce himself, offer the chance to reflect on the sensibility and sculptural language of one of the UK’s most significant artists.