NASTY SPIKED METAL collars, hostile and surly looking carved wooden cuts and a set of aggressive, larger than life size prints make up Andrew Boyle's Glasgow kiss of a show at the Temple Bar Gallery.
Boyle makes his prints, which form the largest part of the show, through a colographic technique in which the artist cuts, scratches, scrapes and scours wooden - rather than metal surfaces in order to make his plates.
The images Boyle produces through the method are harsh, full of deep contours and rugged juxtapositions. He conjures a huge range of brusque textures and allows their bold scars and abrasion to explore an interest in various types of masks and disguises - and the marks, both, literal and metaphorical, which they hide.
Boyle hardly shows signs of notable drawing ability, but the emphasis in his images is clearly on whatever violent, physical immediacy particularly in style and colour produces. It's rather like the print equivalent of body piercing in your face in more ways than one.