- Title
- "Boy in Black Jeans," by Roy Edwards.
- Date
- c1965
- Publisher
- Unpublished private collection belonging to Corinna Edwards-Colledge.
- Contributor
- Daren Kay, Communtiy Curator.
- Format
- Scrapbook.
- Type
- Water colour illustration.
- Creator
- Roy Edwards (1932 - 1982).
- Language
- English.
- Rights Holder
- Corinna Edwards-Colledge.
- Rights
- Jim Pike
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Description:
Roy Edwards (1932-1982) was a member of the English Surrealist movement in the 1950s and 1960s and lived for a time at Farley House in Sussex, home of artists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Farley House is well known to have been visited by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Man Ray. Contributing to the movement with poetry, photography and collage, his illustrations and collages display graphic homoerotic content at a time when it was still illegal to be homosexual.
Contributing to the movement with poetry, photography and collage, his illustrations and collages display graphic homoerotic content at a time when it was still illegal to be homosexual.
Corinna Edwards-Colledge, Edward's neice: "Considering that much of my uncle's work was created when homosexuality was still a criminal offence, I think it is rather wonderful and brave in its celebratory homo-eroticism. The drawings and illustrations are beautiful in the lyricism of their lines and exotic detail, reminiscent, to me, of Aubrey Beardsley, and also have a strong sense of narrative.”
"Boy in Black Jeans," by Roy Edwards.
