Pauline Boty
Wave Wolverhampton Art Gallery
When British Pop artist Pauline Boty died in 1966 at the age of twenty-eight, she left behind a considerable oeuvre. Yet this remarkable production was nearly lost to art history; much of it was rediscovered only in the 1990s, languishing at her family’s farm. Already as a student at the Royal College of Art in early-’60s London, Boty was a well-known face. A kind of poster girl for the swinging art scene, she was memorably captured twisting away at a party alongside Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, and David Hockney in Ken Russell’s famous 1962 BBC film Pop Goes the Easel. Like her peers, Boty was