Derek Boshier
Derek Boshier (born 1937, in Portsmouth) is an English pop artist works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, photography, film and sculpture.
Biography
Early life
Derek Boshier attended the Royal College of Art in London, alongside David Hockney, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips, graduating in 1962. The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the [Royal Engineers] 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.
Career
He appeared with Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips in Pop Goes the Easel (1962), a film by Ken Russell for the BBC's Monitor series. Boshier later played the role of John Everett Millais in Russell's television film Dante's Inferno (1967); his girlfriend Gala Mitchell played Jane Morris.
