A short write up in an article titled ‘8 brilliant new art documentaries you need to see‘ – 2 April 2025

The team behind Pauline Boty – I Am The Sixties…

Director & Editor – Lee Cogswell
Writer – Vinny Rawding
Producers Vinny Rawding and Mark Baxter
Executive Producers for Channel X – Jim Reid and Alan Marke
Exective Prodcuer – Natalie Gibson

Would like to express their gratitude to all the following for the support in making the film.
Thank you, it was never taken for granted.

Ruth Abrahams
David Alexander
Jess Alford
Eddie Armchair
Philip Andrew
Ronnie Archer Morgan
Laura Azevedo
Kevin Bacon
Robert Baird
George Lionel Barker
Helen Barrett
Jean Baxter
Louise Baxter
Andrew Beck
Mark Bell
Celia Birtwell CBE
Chrissy Blake
Sir Peter Blake
Derek Boshier
Bridget Boty
Louise Boty
Sandra Boty
Lynda Bowen
Joe Boyd
Stephen Brandl
Kate Bryan
Louisa Buck
Lord Catford
Yvonne Cogswell
Susan Cooke
Caroline Coon
Andy Croker
Gary Crowley
Rob Dady
Heather Davison
Rob Dex
Corinne Drewery
John Earls
Jenny Eclair
Travis Elborough
Martin Freeman
Red Gaskell
Melanie Gerlis
Natalie Gibson MBE
Jay Glennie
Ed Gray
Christopher Gregory
Sarah Gresty
Tansy Hamley
Jason Hazeley
Mark Hoffman
Lee Inman
Sam Jacob
Jenny and Jacob
Brian Kotz
Marc Kristal
David Lancaster
Mark Lewisohn
Gary Malby
Sharon and Neil McElroy
Jim Moir
Hannah Moorish
Gudrun Muller Wells
Michael Mulligan
Vas Nevride
Jo Ortmans
Neil Parkinson
Kim Peters
Kiern Pettican
Grayson Perry
Steven Picard
Dameon Priestly
The Mad Pudding
Katie Rae
Tam Rawding
Emma Reed
Geoffrey Reeves
Catherine Riley
Caroline Roberts
Alan Robertson
Phil Roud
Sir David Rosen
David Ross
Uta Ruhkamp
Hesham Sabry
Matthew Sanger
Piet Schreuders
Adam and Maria Smith
Queenie Smith
George Symon
Dr. Sue Tate
Abigail Thaw
Greg Thompson
Tanita Tikaram
Cathi Unsworth
Kevin Ward
Morgan Webster
Jon Welleans
Paul Weller
Jason Wood
Will Widen
Sam Williams
John Wilson
Simon Wood
Helen Yung

The first screening on TV of PAULINE BOTY: I am the Sixties, the new documentary film from Mono Media Films and Channel X, has been confirmed as taking place at 10:00pm on BBC4 on Monday 3rd March, and then available on iPlayer.

Further info here from its creators: “The first TV documentary of the Pop Art sensation Pauline Boty; Boty: I Am The Sixties tracks the artist’s original contribution to British art, her feminism and unique take on the nascent celebrity culture of the 1960’s. Ahead of her time in so many ways, Boty’s story ends with her tragic early death at 28 in 1966 and the subsequent revival of interest in her work in the last decade.

Packed full of original photographs and art work, this 60 minute film calls on an array of family, friends, art critics and famous fans to lead us through the Boty story. Contributors include Pop Art titan Sir Peter Blake, comedian and artist Jim Moir, critic Kate Bryan, best friend and Print Designer Natalie Gibson MBE, Celia Birtwell CBE, musicians Corrine Drewery and Tanita Tikaram and TV presenter Ronnie Archer Morgan amongst many other notable friends and fans of the British female Pop Art pioneer Pauline Boty.”

A Mono Media Films and Channel X Production; Boty: I Am The Sixties is Directed by Lee Cogswell, Written and produced by Vinny Rawding and Mark Baxter, Executive Producers are: Alan Marke, Jim Reid, Natalie Gibson MBE, Executive Producer for the BBC is Mark Bell.

After being premiered during the sold-out Gazelli Talk: Pauline Boty From Canvas to Screen, we are delighted to share the new industry trailer for the forthcoming documentary film from Mono Media Films and Channel X – BOTY – The life and times of a forgotten artist (working title).

Mono Media Films / Channel X, who have previously produced documentary films on Sir Peter Blake, The Style Council, Tubby Hayes and more, have spent the last five years piecing together the story of Pauline Boty’s life and times to bring the first ever film on this Pop Art Pioneer to life on the big screen.

Key figures interviewed for the film include Natalie Gibson, Celia Birtwell, Derek Boshier, Bridget Boty, Sir Peter Blake, Geoffrey Reeve and Sue Tate among many others.

Our project ‘Boty: The Life and Times of a Forgotten Artist’ is on Filmmakers Collaborative. If you would like to make a donation to help towards funding this film, you can do so here.

Pauline Boty is one of the most important artists of the 20th Century and a trailblazer in woman’s art and the burgeoning feminism movement of the 1960’s. Often cited as being the ‘forgotten artist ‘of the British art scene of the 1960’s, Pauline Boty’s story has been clouded by her tragic early death from a rare form of lymphatic cancer at the age of 28 and subsequent relative obscurity compared to her peers.

Pauline Boty hardly gets a mention any book, documentary or article written or made on the Sixties. At best, she has become merely a curious footnote in other more celebrated artist’s stories. Whereas the truth is she was a key player in a lot of the cultural change that was happening in London in the first half of the most culturally important decade there has been on these shores.

Within her art she analysed, subverted and skewered pop culture and major political events. Included within her paintings / collages are many of the most famous people and events of that time, such as Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Christine Keeler, the JKF assassination and the Cuba crisis amongst many others.

Asked why she did this, Boty replied that is because Pop Art is ‘Nostalgia for now…’

Boty’s art stands shoulder to shoulder with any produced in London from 1960-1966, and for that reason alone a brighter light should be shone on to the story of her short life and magnificent art. If ever there was a case of ‘what might have been’ it can be applied to the painter Pauline Boty and now is the right time for her full story to be told.