Pauline Boty (British 1938-1966)
One of the relatively few women artists to be involved with the Pop Art movement, Boty studied at Wimbledon School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, where she met and worked with the key figures from the movement.
After graduating in 1960 and before her tragically early death in 1966 at the age of only 28, her collages and large canvases were exhibited in a number of group shows and in her first solo exhibition was held at the Grabowski Gallery in 1963.
She featured with Derek Boshier, Peter Blake and Peter Philips in the BBC film Pop Goes the Easel in 1962. David Mellor exhibited Boty's work in his important show on the 60s at the Barbican in 1993 and again in a joined Anglo-French exhibition, held in Brighton in 1997.
The major retrospective exhibition was held at Whitford Fine Art and Mayor Gallery, London, Nov-Dec 1998.
Solo Exhibitions
1998, Pauline Boty - The Only Blonde in the World, The Mayor Gallery and Whitford Fine Art, London
1993, Pauline Boty, Mayor Gallery, London
1963, Pauline Boty, Grabowski Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
1997, The Pop '60's Transatlantic Crossing, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
1996, Les Sixties: Great Britain and France 1962 - 1973, Musee d'Histoire Contemporaine, Paris and Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton
1995, Post War to Pop, Whitford Fine Art, London
1993, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1982, Pop Art, Galeria 'Pro', Koszalin, Poland; Miedzy Hiperrealizmem a Pop-Artem, Museum Regionalne, Radomsko, Poland
1981, Realizm Spoleczny Pop-Artu, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
1966, Spring Exhibition, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford
1965, Spring Exhibition, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford; Contemporary Art, Grabowski Gallery, London
1963, Pop Art, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1962, New Approaches to the Figure, Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London; New Art, Congress House, London
1961, Blake, Boty, Porter, Reeve, AIA Gallery, London
1960 - 61, Modern Stained Glass, Arts Council Tour
1959, Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
1957, Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London