Derek Boshier
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Derek Boshier is a British pop artist works in various media including painting, drawing, collage
, photography, film and sculpture.
Boshier attended the Royal College of Art, London, along with David Hockney
, Allen Jones
and Peter Phillips
, graduating in 1959. The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the RAF had been alleviated by reading the works of Marshall McLuhan
. During his College years, his work was didactic, commenting on the space race, the all-powerful multinationals and the increasing Americanisation of English culture. After graduating, he spent a year travelling in India on an Indian government scholarship.
He appeared with Peter Blake
, Pauline Boty
and Peter Phillips in Pop goes the easel, a film by Ken Russell
for the BBC's Monitor series in 1962. Boshier later played the role of John Everett Millais
in Russell's 1967 TV film Dante's Inferno
; his girlfriend Gala Mitchell played Jane Morris.
Never one to allow his message to be governed by any particular medium, at the 1964 ‘The New Generation’ show at the Whitechapel he exhibited large shaped canvas
es with vibrant areas of evenly applied colour. In subsequent years he has used metal, coloured plastics, even light, the materials of the commercial sign maker, to create three-dimensional objects. Also he has experimented both with books and film.
Currently he is living in the United States. Social commentary has once more become a major element of his work tackling head on subjects that have strong political overtones such as gun control, police brutality and once again, the multinationals - this time on home turf.
He is a visiting lecturer at University of California Los Angele's School of Arts where he teaches drawing.
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
, photography, film and sculpture.
Boshier attended the Royal College of Art, London, along with David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
, Allen Jones
Allen Jones
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and Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips (artist)
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, graduating in 1959. The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the RAF had been alleviated by reading the works of Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
. During his College years, his work was didactic, commenting on the space race, the all-powerful multinationals and the increasing Americanisation of English culture. After graduating, he spent a year travelling in India on an Indian government scholarship.
He appeared with Peter Blake
Peter Blake (artist)
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, CBE, RDI, RA is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:...
, Pauline Boty
Pauline Boty
Pauline Boty was a founder of the British Pop art movement and Britain's only notable female Pop art painter. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the "man's world" in which she lived...
and Peter Phillips in Pop goes the easel, a film by Ken Russell
Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
for the BBC's Monitor series in 1962. Boshier later played the role of John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
in Russell's 1967 TV film Dante's Inferno
Dante's Inferno (1967 film)
Dante's Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter is a feature-length 35mm film directed by Ken Russell and first screened on the BBC on 22 December 1967. It quickly became a staple in cinemas in retrospectives of Russell's work...
; his girlfriend Gala Mitchell played Jane Morris.
Never one to allow his message to be governed by any particular medium, at the 1964 ‘The New Generation’ show at the Whitechapel he exhibited large shaped canvas
Shaped canvas
Shaped canvases are paintings that depart from the normal flat, rectangular configuration. Canvases may be shaped by altering their outline, while retaining their flatness. An ancient, traditional example is the tondo, a painting on a round canvas: Raphael, as well as some other Renaissance...
es with vibrant areas of evenly applied colour. In subsequent years he has used metal, coloured plastics, even light, the materials of the commercial sign maker, to create three-dimensional objects. Also he has experimented both with books and film.
Currently he is living in the United States. Social commentary has once more become a major element of his work tackling head on subjects that have strong political overtones such as gun control, police brutality and once again, the multinationals - this time on home turf.
He is a visiting lecturer at University of California Los Angele's School of Arts where he teaches drawing.