A major publication documenting an extraordinary practice shaped by fierce experimentation and a refusal to conform.

Emerging in the 1980s within the British Black Arts Movement, Boyce went on to pioneer photographic, performance and participatory practice. An artist, academic and educator, Boyce gained global recognition when she represented Great Britain at the 2022 Venice Biennale and was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion.

Published to accompany the major and multi-sensory survey — Tate’s first on the artist — this monograph traces Boyce’s collaborative and improvisational techniques, inviting readers on a playful journey into profound questions of collective memory, authorship, and the boundaries between private and public experiences.

Traversing a rich and varied oeuvre, which spans large-scale installation, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture, and including highlights such as the Devotional series, Boyce’s living, ever-growing archive created in conversation with the public, this long-overdue publication is a celebration of an artist who, after a forty-year career, continues to break new ground.