Kevin Boyd graduated from the Bendigo College of Advanced Education with a Diploma of Art (Ceramics) in 1977 and has been teaching and making pottery for thirty-two years. He is currently based in Surrey Hills, Melbourne. He works in stoneware, but also earthenware and raku, including raku nu. His works are signed with an incised 'Kevin Boyd' or an impressed five-petal flower with 'Kevin Boyd Surry Hill'.