Boo Saville (b.1980, Norwich) lives and works in Kent, UK. Saville is known for making large-scale abstract paintings alongside small-scale figurative works. Her work investigates the phenomenology of memory and perception, questioning both our collective and personal histories. Primarily working with oil paint, her practice explores our emotional relationship with colour and surface. Juxtaposing this with of metaphor in the post-internet age.
Saville received her BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2004. Selected exhibitions include: Best Self, Curated by Polly Morgan, Brooke Bennington, London, UK (2025); XXS, Curated by Wendy White, Brintz + County, Palm Beach, USA (2025); Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf, TJ Boulting, London (2024); Dominion, Newport Street Gallery, London (2024); Vessel, OHSH Projects, London (2024); Works on Paper, Quench Gallery, Margate (2024); Her, TJ
Boulting, London (2024); The Smoke Detector and the Watchtower, Davidson Gallery, New York, USA (2021); True Colours, Newport Street Gallery, London (2018).
Her work is held in notable collections such as the Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Collezione Maramotti. Saville’s work has been featured in Frieze, Time Out, The Art Newspaper and was recently included in the 3rd edition of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting. She has published five print editions, with her latest, Palindrome (2024), created with Manifold Editions, London.
