“Pauline Boty: The Wimbledon Bardot” talk to be held at Wimbledon Bookfest on 27 October

As part of their annual festival Wimbledon Bookfest have announced the a talk between Dr Sue Tate and Samira Ahmed at Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School on Sunday 27 October at 3:00pm:

“An opportunity to find out more about one of the leading co-founders of the British Pop art movement, Pauline Boty.

Known as the Wimbledon Bardot, Pauline Boty was a student at Wimbledon School of Art. She smashed stereotypes and confronted issues well ahead of her time, but was not given the recognition she deserved. During her tragically short life, she produced an exciting and complex body of work, commenting on pop culture, feminism and so much of the era in which she lived. Dr Sue will be in conversation with BBC broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed.”

‘The life of Boty? A Molotov fusion of possibility and loss.’ – Ali Smith”

Details
Title: Pauline Boty: The Wimbledon Bardot
Location: Rutherford Theatre at Wimbledon High School
Date: Sunday 27 October 2024
Time: 3:00 pm
Tickets are £15 and can be booked here [link]

“Pauline Boty: Her Life and Legacy” talk to be held at Iconic Images Chelsea on 7 December

Iconic Images Chelsea have announced the following as the latest in their series of Park Walk Talks: “Artist, feminist, pioneer, provocateur – Pauline Boty was many things in her too-short life. Born into a middle-class Catholic family in 1938, she won a scholarship to the Wimbledon School of Art, attending despite her conservative father’s disapproval. A degree at the Royal College of Art followed, then the post-college years in which Boty became the only established female member of the Pop art movement of the 1960s.

After her untimely death in 1966 at the age of only 28, Boty’s paintings were stored away in a barn on her brother’s farm, and she was largely forgotten for nearly 30 years. In the 1990s her work was rediscovered, provoking new interest in her contribution to Pop art and leading to her inclusion in several group exhibitions as well as a major solo retrospective – in other words, a rewriting of Pop art history.

Join us on Thursday December 7th at the Iconic Images Gallery Chelsea for the latest in our series of Park Walk Talks, where the collector and researcher Christopher Gregory will be exploring Pauline Boty’s brief but fascinating life and legacy. A longtime aficionado of 1960s pop culture, Gregory first encountered Boty’s work in 2011, contributing to her newly published biography and establishing the authorised website paulineboty.org.”

Details
Title: Park Walk Talks: Pauline Boty: Her Life and Legacy
Location: Iconic Images Chelsea, 13A Park Walk, London SW10 0AJ
Date: 7 December 2023
Time: 7:00 pm
Tickets are free and can be booked via eventbrite here [link]

Header image shows Pauline Boty with her great lost work “Scandal ’63” photographed by Michael Ward.

Online talks held by The Stained Glass Museum include “Pauline Boty: Collage into Stained Glass” with Sue Tate

Pauline Boty, Untitled (Paris, dreaming woman and rose), 1961

Organised by The Stained Glass Museum, the online talk from Dr Sue Tate – Pauline Boty: Collage into Stained Glass – a Pop Art Approach – will take place on Thursday 2 November 2023 at 7pm (UK).

“Pauline Boty was one of the founders of British Pop; a talented and ambitious artist, and also a charismatic player on the swinging London scene. She produced a vibrant body of work in stained glass, collage and paint that both challenges and enriches Pop from a female perspective. This talk will focus on the stained glass work she made while at the Royal College of Art (including the piece held at the Ely Stained Glass Museum). It will explore the relationship between the mediums of collage and stained glass and place both in the wider context of Boty’s whole oeuvre and contribution to Pop.

Dr Sue Tate is a freelance art historian with a specific interest in women artists. She is the leading expert on Pauline Boty, British Pop Artist, 1938-66, having curated exhibitions of her oeuvre, lecturing on it in the UK, Europe and the USA, and publishing essays, book chapters and the definitive book on the artist: Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman.

This is an online event held via Zoom webinars. A Zoom link will be circulated in the week leading up to the event.” [information from The Stained Glass Museum website]

Details
Date: 18 October 2023
Time: 7pm (UK)
Price: General £6.50, Friends of the SGM £5.00

Further information, including how to buy tickets, is available here: [link]

The Stained Glass Museum,
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Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DL
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