Derek Boshier

Derek Boshier (born 1937 in Portsmouth) is an English pop artist, painter, designer, photographer. Derek Boshier began his artistic studies at the Yeovil School of Art in Somerset (1953-1957). From 1957 to 1959, he did his military service in Surrey and attended part-time courses at Guilford College of Art. During these years, he began to read Marshall McLuhan, Vance Packard and John Kenneth Galbraith: he thus had the tools to think about the modern world. From 1959 to 1962, Derek Boshier studied at the Royal College of Art in London; during these studies he got to know David Hockney, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips. He thus belongs to the second generation of the Pop Art movement founded around 1952 by English artists such as Richard Hamilton or Eduardo Paolozzi. From 1959 to 1962, he participated in the Young contemporaries exhibitions where David Hockney, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and RB Kitaj2 appeared, which served as manifestos for the Pop movement. In 1962, he appeared in the landmark BBC-produced film Pop Goes the Easel by Ken Russell, alongside Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips.