Kerry Boyd
(she/they)
Irish queer artist based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Education
HNC Horticulture, SRUC, Pass with Distinction, 2024
1:1 BA (Hons) Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2017
Experience
Tutor & Technician, Redbarn Cavehill - August 2025- present
Facilitator & organiser of ceramics classes- handbuilding & wheel, marketing, content creation, studio maintenance and processing classwork.
Founder & Creative Director, DOT DST - September 2023- present
Founder of my own embroidery service, specialising in creative brand merchandising. I build relationships with brands and offer high quality embroidered products for resale and promotion. Clients include Hayu, The Buccaneers, MacGregor MacDuff, Tiny Changes to name a few.
Ceramics Tutor & Technician, The Craft Pottery Studio - March 2023- August 2025
Facilitator of hand-building courses and wheel classes up to 16/6 people respectively. Maintenance of a busy creative studio; cleaning, loading kilns, glazing, processing work, match and contact, customer service.
Embroidery Manager, Wild & Kind Studios — April 2021- December 2022
Manager of embroidery department at Wild & Kind. I ran a busy creative embroidery studio, using industrial Tajima embroidery machines. Liaising with clients, digitising designs, issuing invoices, organising and processing orders, operating and maintaining machinery and workspace. Overseeing a member of staff.
Workshop Co-ordinator, Survivor Arts - September 2022
Workshop Co-ordinator, East Pollokshields Quad - October 2021
Branding Co-ordinator, Aspire Industrial Services - Jan 2020-Jan 2021
Branding Co-ordinator, CKL - Sept 2019- Jan 2020
Branding Co-ordinator, Insignia Embroidery — Oct 2018 - Sept 2019
FILM CREDITS
Assistant Art Director,
The Good, The Grave & The Wild,
Samuel Waite,
Belfast, Feb 2019
Assisted with fabricating a set from scratch, sourcing and distressing costumes on set, props and doing makeup.
Belfast, Feb 2019
Assisted with fabricating a set from scratch, sourcing and distressing costumes on set, props and doing makeup.
Assitant Art Director
Il Classico
Will O’Neil
Liverpool, April 2019
Sourced costumes, makeup and props.
Liverpool, April 2019
Sourced costumes, makeup and props.
EXHIBITIONS
Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, 2017
Quicky, DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh, 2017
Astaire Prize, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, 2017
RCA @ ECA, Sculpture Court, 2017
ECA @ RCA, Dyson Gallery, London, 2016
Third Try-mester, St. Margarets House, Edinburgh, 2016
Sex and Death and Sex and Death, Edinburgh College of Art, 2016
Drawing Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, 2016
Cotopaxi Culture, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Napier, 2015