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British Pop artist Derek Boshier (b. Portsmouth, 1937) works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, photography, film and sculpture. Boshier along with David Hockney, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips was one of the 1959 intake at the Royal College of Art. The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the RAF had been alleviated by reading the works of Marshall McLuhan. During the College years his work was didactic, commenting on the space race, the all powerful multinationals, ad man and the increasing Americanisation of English culture. After graduating he spent a year travelling in India on an Indian government scholarship.
   Never one to allow his message to be governed by any particular medium, at the 1964 ‘The New Generation’ show at the Whitechapel he exhibited large shaped canvases with vibrant areas of evenly applied colour. In subsequent years he's used metal, coloured plastics, even light, the materials of the commercial sign maker, to create three-dimensional objects. Also he's experimented both with books and film. He appeared with Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips in Pop goes the easel, a film by Ken Russell for the BBC's Monitor series in 1962.
   Currently he's living in the States. Social commentary has once more become a major element of his work tackling head on subjects that have strong political overtones such as gun control, police brutality and once again, the multinationals - this time on home turf.
   He is a visiting lecturer at UCLA's School of Arts where he teaches drawing.

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