Writing from Art: PAULINE BOTY

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00 - 13:00 GMT

Gazelli Art House, 39 Dover Street London W1S 4NN United Kingdom

A rare opportunity to explore Boty's artworks currently on display in the gallery. 

An Ekphrastic Writing Workshop with prize-winning poet and writing tutor Claire Collison, who will offer a myriad of ways to respond to Boty's life and work, using it as inspiration for your own poetry and prose.

Limited places! £20.00 For more information, and to book, email: claire.collison@gmail.com

Colour Her Gone, Pauline Boty, 1962

PAULINE BOTY (1938 - 1966)

The original female Pop Artist, Pauline Boty was born in South London, and embarked on her artistic journey with a scholarship to Wimbledon School of Art in 1954. In 1958, she continued her studies at the Royal College of Art.

Boty’s diverse body of work, encompassing paintings, collages, and stained glass, often depicted individuals she deeply admired, celebrated her unapologetic femininity, and explored themes of female sexuality. As her career progressed, her paintings began to incorporate more overt or implicit critiques of the male-dominated societal norms she confronted, thus shedding light on the inequalities of the “man’s world” in which she navigated.