Derek Boshier Drawings

Hardcover, cloth-bound, 128 pages7.25 in. x 10 in. | 18.415 cm. x 25.4 cmEdited by Leslie Jones “It was drummed into our heads that we had to take a drawing book everywhere,” recounts Derek Boshier about his early art school days. Six decades later, drawing continues to be at the core of the artist’s practice, which includes painting, printmaking, film and video, as well as graphic design and mail art. For Boshier, drawing is not simply a means to an end (like a preparatory sketch); it is a process through which he engages with and responds to life and media culture in particular. Using pencil, pen and ink, and black acrylic (sometimes with collage) Boshier reconfigures found imagery in a manner uniquely his own—rooted in the expressive power of line—to address the social and political issues of the day. The book Derek Boshier Drawings will trace Boshier’s lifetime of drawing, from his involvement with British Pop in the 1960s to the inky satirical depictions of the 80s to the recent g