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Boyle Family are a family of collaborative artists based in London.

The Barcelona site is the first World Series project undertaken in Spain and will take up the entire gallery. The red ochre earth of the main study records the actions of the sun and rain on the site, with stone and pebble deposits around dried out pools, whilst fragments of terracotta tiles and other building materials are becoming embedded and breaking down to dust. Traces of animal and plant activity can also be seen in the cracked mud.

The completed project includes electron microphotographs of insects and plant material found on the site; electron microphotographs of samples of the artists’ hairs. The Barcelona project was begun in 2000 and completed this year. Mark Boyle died in 2005.