Circle

Playing with scale and movement, pop artist Boshier examines different object connections

Celebrated 60s pop artist Derek Boshier establishes unexpected trails of continuity between different shapes and things on the streets of run-down 1970s London. Spatial and figurative connections between objects including model planes and paintings are highlighted, rather than suggestions of narrative, and the process goes full circle, using wit and play.

Circle was one of several 16mm films Boshier made in the early 70s which saw the artist venturing outside his area of known expertise, and in recent years he has returned to filmmaking, using an Ipad. Boshier studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and was profiled in Ken Russell's seminal 60s BBC pop art documentary Pop Goes the Easel.