Continued from the previous room.

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills began making earth studies in 1964 as part of their wider project to see and present reality objectively, often using random selection techniques to choose subjects and sites. They made Liverpool Dock Series in 1976 with their children Sebastian and Georgia. The work consists of seven earth studies and three water studies, the latter filmed with a high speed camera. The Boyle Family attempt to eliminate themselves as artists, to dispense with the ‘memories of places where we suffered joy and anguish or tenderness or laughter. We want to see without motive and without reminiscence this cliff, this street, this field, this rock, this earth.’ This work was first shown in the exhibition Real Life at the Walker Art Gallery in 1977.