Boyarde Messenger is acknowledged as one of London’s most exciting ‘up and coming’ photographers. A major solo show of her works Sacred & Profane presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery will be exhibited at the prestigious Arndean Gallery on Cork Street in May 2009. Boyarde’s outstanding camera talent was first recognised at Bedales School where a photographic department was founded in her honour. The youngest winner of ‘The Observer’ photographic competition, and one of the winners for ‘The Year of Racial Equality’, she was presented with her prize by Prime Minister John Major at Somerset House in June 1997. A BTEC Foundation in Art course followed at Wimbledon School of Art in 2000. She gained a BA Hons Photography at Bournemouth Arts Institute in 2003. Since then she has had three solo exhibitions and twenty one group exhibitions ranging from the Air Gallery and Artspace Galleries in Mayfair to the International Affordable Arts Fair in New York.