Steve Boyland is a UK-based vocalist and performance/sound artist. His practice, which locates itself in the embodied, improvisational voice, explores the expressive, energetic and metaphysical possibilities of spontaneous sounding and its various interdisciplinary contexts and spatial environments. Working both as a solo artist and in multi-disciplinary collaborations with other artists and academics, he creates live performance and sound installations in art galleries, concert halls, theatres and other public spaces in the UK and internationally. In 2025 he was appointed UL Adjunct Professor in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick and in 2026, was awarded an Arts Fellowship by the Foro Di Studi Avanzati, Rome.

In May 2026 he marked the appointment with a performance/presentation at the Accademia Vivarium Novum in Rome. Like Images in a Mirror is a new piece for solo voice based on the philosophical texts of Plotinus, co-commissioned with Professor Panayiota Vassilopoulou of the University of Liverpool. It will also be presented again next year as part of a series of events to commemorate the work of philosopher Mary Midgley, in a joint commission by the Universities of Durham and Liverpool.

September 2026 sees the premiere of a new work for solo voice, commissioned for Beckett:Lieben 2026. Incorporating texts from Beckett's novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women, the work will be presented at the Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. Eight Songs of the Emergal responds in real time both to artist Sean Scully's sculpture/installation A Tree for Godot—which will record and livestream the performance—and to the acoustic environment of the spaces within the LSA building.