Originally from Hastings, East Sussex, Leo Boyd studied for a BA in Fine Art in Context in Bristol before moving to the South of Ireland in the year 2000 to study and live. In 2011 he moved to Belfast where he screenprints full time.
He sees it as a liberating art form, democratising the visual image, and encompassing street-art, sculpture, collage, photography and painting.
Leo's current work explores the notion that we are currently living in a computer simulation. His "Welcome to the Simulation" exhibition was shown at Atom in May 2018.
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Limited edition six-colour screen print on 180gsm acid-free paper. Exhibited at Film Club, Atom Gallery (November 2026)
Leo’s print riffs on Gregg Araki’s Nowhere (1997), a cult film saturated with strange, hyper-real imagery. He first saw it young enough for it to become, in his words, “part of the visual language of my brain.”
The piece is inspired by one of the film’s most absurd scenes: a character beaten to death with a can of Campbell’s tomato soup, played for comedy. Leo had long wanted to work with the image, and the invitation to make a piece for Film Club gave him the chance to finally bring it to life.
Artist Leo Boyd
Medium 6 colour screen print onto 180 gsm acid free paper
Dimensions 42 x 59cm
Edition Size 10