What's the difference between Post-pop and Pop Art? It's Charlie Evaristo-Boyce.
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Charlie's work, like so much else, gets lazily filed under Pop art. But the art neeks call it Post-Pop, stroke their Hackney moustaches and ask you whether you've heard of microdosing. What's the difference, you ask? Well, keep reading.
WHAT is POST-POP?
A three-layer screenprint by Charlie Evaristo-Boyce, hand-printed on 370gsm paper and signed by the artist.
Artist Charlie Evaristo-Boyce
Size 70 x 100cm
Medium 3 layer screenprint
Edition Size 25
Pop art was a 1960s invention with an American accent: soup cans, comic panels, Marilyn on repeat. It held a mirror up to Western consumer culture and let the mirror do the talking. Post-pop keeps the Pop art legacy - mass consumer-culture, bold colours, the everyday object. So, how does it differ?
Post-pop art widens the lens. Where Pop spoke from inside Western consumerism, Post-pop often looks outward, beyond the West.
That's where Charlie comes in. His prints carry the same Pop energy, but the imagery reaches beyond America's shopping list. He draws on his Nigerian heritage, weaving in Yoruba motifs and iconography. Same energy as classic Pop. Bigger map.
Who is Charlie Evaristo-Boyce?
Charlie Evaristo-Boyce is a printmaker out of Margate, working from Resort Studios. Back in a 2021 interview he summed the place up nicely: "in the summer when it gets hot in the studio the best way to end the day is walking down the road and having a dip in the sea." He's shown across the UK at solo shows in Leicester and London and most recently turned up at Turner Contemporary in Banned, a show digging into the overlooked history of American airmen stationed near Ramsgate in the 50s.
Why he keeps the prices honest
Here's the bit that matters if you've ever wanted original art on your wall but assumed it was for other people. Charlie's whole position is that a proper signed edition shouldn't cost the same as a month's rent. He keeps his prints affordable on purpose, and he doesn't gatekeep the craft either — he shares his process openly with a big online following. The resul, signed screenprints that start well under £100. Not posters. Not reproductions. The actual thing.
what does he make you ask? Loud, is the short answer. One print is a fluorescent slab of colour that more or less yells AMAZING at you; the next is a layered, story-led portrait that rewards a longer look. There's afrofuturist imagery, bold typography, photographic collage
A screenprint by Charlie Evaristo-Boyce, hand-printed on 370gsm paper and signed by the artist. Only 5 left in this edition.
Artist Charlie Evaristo-Boyce
Size 52 x 100cm
Medium Screenprint
Edition Size 45