Lover's Rock, 1998, Works on Paper, Print and Photography
- Medium
- Blind embossed wallpaper
- Dimensions
- 305cm x 56.2cm


In Lover’s Rock, Boyce uses blind embossing – stamping an impression into the paper, leaving raised areas – to create the image, which is the text of a popular song, ‘Hurt So Good’ (1975) by Susan Cadogan. Boyce intends the paper to evoke the experience of West Indian house parties, where couples dance together, leaving the wallpaper faintly marked where they press against it. These marks she sees as evidence of their physical and emotional engagement with the place and the music, and of the intensity of love itself, sensual but sometimes painful.
Lover’s Rock is a series of six wallpapers made while Boyce was artist in residence at the University of Manchester, which has a large collection of historic wallpapers at the Whitworth Art Gallery.
Collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wallpaper series

Clapping Wallpaper 2
2024

Coloured Wallpaper
2023

Braided Hair Wallpaper
2023
FEELING HER WAY
2022

Ain't Misbehavin'
2022

We move in her way
2017

Just One Minute More
2016-2022

Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018

Crop Over
2007

Lover's Rock
1998

Head I (Skin) / Head II (Dread)
1995

They're Almost Like Twins
1995

Clapping Wallpaper
1994
Devotional series

In the Mix: Alexandra B’s Dress
2022
FEELING HER WAY
2022

In the Mix: Shirley Songs
2022

In the Mix: Skunk Sputnik
2022

In the Mix: Hippy Liberty
2022

In the Mix: Disciples Together
2022

In the Mix: Mel & Kim Respect
2022

On My Way
2022

Miss Elizabeth Welch 1933 – 1940 / a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
2021

Shirley Bassey / Goldfinger
2021

Sheila Chandra / Ever so lonely MONSOON
2021

P. P. Arnold / Just call me angel of the morning
2021

Sade / The Sweetest Taboo
2021

Polystyrene / X-ray Spex OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!
2021

I’m With Her Too
2019

Just One Minute More
2016-2022

Plastic
2013

Oh Adelaide (with Ain Bailey)
2010

Taken
2009

Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018

1930s to 1960s – The Rivington Place Portfolio
2006

Devotional II
2005

Devotional, 2004
2004

Lover's Rock
1998
Related theme: Sound / Singing

Put Your Hands Together
2024

BENEVOLENCE
2024

On My Way
2022
FEELING HER WAY
2022

In the Mix: Shirley Songs
2022

In the Mix: Skunk Sputnik
2022

Ain't Misbehavin'
2022

In the Mix: Hippy Liberty
2022

In the Mix: Disciples Together
2022

In the Mix: Mel & Kim Respect
2022

In the Mix: Alexandra B’s Dress
2022

Miss Elizabeth Welch 1933 – 1940 / a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
2021

Shirley Bassey / Goldfinger
2021

Sade / The Sweetest Taboo
2021

Sheila Chandra / Ever so lonely MONSOON
2021

Polystyrene / X-ray Spex OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!
2021

P. P. Arnold / Just call me angel of the morning
2021

Six Acts
2018

Just One Minute More
2016-2022

Exquisite Cacophony
2015

Plastic
2013

Move
2013

Gather:Justicia
2010

Is this Love That I’m Feeling?
2010

Oh Adelaide (with Ain Bailey)
2010

Taken
2009

Drift
2008

Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018

For you, only you
2007

1930s to 1960s – The Rivington Place Portfolio
2006

Devotional II
2005

Devotional, 2004
2004

Lover's Rock
1998