Fellow artist Emily Vey Duke has described Boyle’s practice as the process of “painting herself a universe…which is ordered according to her own systems of physics, ethics and geography.” This is certainly true of The Clearances, a new mural drawing presented on three overhead projectors that interweaves stories of reclusive sea monkeys, sophisticated sideshow acts and the struggles of indigenous peoples to establish land claims. In Boyle’s delicately layered narratives, real and imagined stories are positioned alongside one another, making no distinction between empirical and mythical truths. The resulting installations resemble a collage from an overactive childhood imagination, maintaining a precarious balance between the seductive fantasies of fairytales and the sinister power of the monster under the bed. (601 3 Ave S, Lethbridge AB)
