With her first solo show in 2009 in Cork Street with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Boyarde Messenger’s notorious Pop Art Bottoms have collectors in all corners of the globe from The Royal Palaces of Jordan to Belize, exhibiting in The Hamptons International Fine Art Fair, Art Wynwood and Palm Beach, Art Basel Miami to Slick, Paris. With widespread acclaim, they have been featured in The Sunday Times Style Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Evening Standard, The Independent and GMT BBC World News. The Evening Standard headlined Banksy and Boyarde at the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘The Art of Giving’ exhibition, describing her live installation of female nudes as ‘the highlight of the auction’.

Boyarde describes the work as “accentuating my playful personality, injecting it with humour and mischievousness, whilst liberating the object of desire, admiring its form, yet still confirming the vital balance between power and vulnerability.”  

These pieces explore her fascination with the female form and the nature of its power, engendered in the ‘pleasure of looking’: Scopophilia. This notion examines all gazes, from narcissism within the subject to objectification by the viewer. Working in the Pop Idiom, Boyarde recontextualizes familiar subconscious Scopophilic images of all types of art from The Pre-Raphaelites to Lichtenstein to icons of photography and cinema. In doing so she unravels the history of gender stereotypes on her female canvas, transforming high art into low art, back into high art, embracing the wonderful vulgar progress of kitsch.