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The work of British pop artist Pauline Boty expresses many of the social changes and tensions for young women in Britain in the 1960s. This lecture will look at Boty’s work and, in particular, her self-portraits and photographic portraits of her, in the context of shifts in morality and sexuality in the period and the changing image of youthful femininity. Lynda Nead is Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on the history of British art and on gender, sexuality and visual representation.

Ken Russell’s 1962 film is widely celebrated as one of the most innovative art documentaries of all time. Moving from London bedsits and studios to the cinema and fairground, it profiles the Young British Artists of the day who pioneered Pop Art, including Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. The screening will take place during our monthly Up Late evening.