Kathryn Boyd

After working for 20 years at Lloyds TSB Bank I studied at Wigan College of Art and then at Bolton University where I graduated in July 2004 with a 1st Class BA Hons in Visual Art, proving it’s never too late to do something different with your life.

I am very interested in how health can be promoted through art and have been involved with research for artworks at the new Ince and Worsley Mesnes Health Centres, situated in the Wigan area, where some of my own work is on display.

I am also concerned with recording, preserving and uncovering local histories and consequently I have taken hundreds of photographs of local areas many of which were taken on the ‘Art Walks’ I do with an organisation who helps support people with mental health problems by introducing them to a number of activities, including art. (This involves showing people how to use a digital camera and how to load and manipulate their images on the PC).

I won the 2D prize at The Wigan Open in 2005 and have had some success exhibiting my own work e.g., as part of The Art with Strangers Exhibition held at The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh this year. The work exhibited was produced as part of a project done with some of Wigan’s homeless.