My very good friend and amazing feminist Dr Sue Tate has recently organised a retrospective of Pauline Boty's fascinating, challenging and exciting contribution to British pop art.
Boty died as a young woman in the sixties, but during her all too brief career she produced art that found a way to represent women's subjective sexuality.
She featured in 'Pop goes the Easel' and her work was exhibited alongside Peter Blake but she never had a full exhibition in her lifetime - or since. Until now.
I went to the exhibition on Saturday and I can only urge you to go. It is powerful, sensual, challenging and full of life, love and sensuality.
Sue has organised a symposium to discuss women in pop art. It's happening on 27th September and tickets are available.
Speakers include:
Dr Sue Tate
Kalliopi Minioudaki, PhD
Lina Džuverović on the The Makings of Critical Pop: Women, Socialism and Pop Art in Yugoslavia
Holly Crawford, PhD on The Expressionistic Aging Pop Art of Pensato
Lucia Gregorová on Girl Power: Jana Želibská in Context of the Sixties in Slovak Art
Guilluame Vandame on Yayoi Kusama as Global Pop Artist
Professor Anne Massey on The Mothers of Pop? Barbara Jones and Dorothy Morland
Catherine Ince on ‘Having Words’: Pop women in architecture and design
and
Althea Greenan
Book your tickets now!
And just go to the gallery to see the exhibition. You'll love it.
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