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Chris Boyd creates award winning videos combining exquisite painterly animation & hallucinatory live action. Boyd’s innovative work covers a broad spectrum of the visual arts.

Chris Boyd creates unique videos combining exquisite painterly outpourings with hallucinatory animation and live action. Boyd has directed award winning, innovative moving image work across a spectrum of both commercial and non-commercial strands of the visual arts. His multilayered elliptical narratives combine passionate explorations of colour and expressionism, which are both inspiring and frightening in their intensity. These dense fictional webs form the architecture of rich narrative structures that display preoccupations with the complex interrelationships with technology and the multiple dimensions of the existential self. In 2004 Chris received a Microwave award from FACT, the UK's leading organization for the development and exhibition of film, video and new media. He won the Big Art Challenge, where he was labeled a genius by art critic Brian Sewell, the 6 part series on channel 5 was aiming to seek out the next Damien Hirst or JMW Turner with a prize of £10,000. In 2005 Chris received a Priestley prize and provided a video in 40 artists 40 Days, a special Tate Britain project supporting London's Olympic bid that brought the Games to Britain in 2012.