Made to mark the 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK in 2022, the gold edition of Pool Boy gives the series its most celebratory iteration — rose gold leaf applied by hand over the CMYK print, the material choice itself a statement: not the flat colour of the previous Pool Boy editions but something that catches light and shifts quality depending on where you stand.
Gavin Dobson‘s practice is grounded in queer experience and queer history, and the Pool Boy series has always been about more than summer and aesthetics — it draws on the long history of pools and lidos as spaces that have particular significance in British queer culture. The gold edition makes that significance legible in the material. CMYK screen print with hand-applied rose gold leaf, limited edition, signed. £100.
