Education
Bowstead studied at the Slade School of Fine Artist
Bowstead studied at the Slade School of Fine Artist
In 1963, with fellow Slade painters Terry Atkinson, Roger Jeffs, and Bernard Jennings, he formed the art group "Fine Artz Associates". The group exhibited its work, "The Kandilac Kustomised Asteroid Action Seat", in the 1964 "Young Contemporaries" exhibition. He worked on the Light/Sound Workshop at Hornsey College of Art (Media Experiments 1-4, 1968.
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He worked on Airplane Panels for the Milan Triennale installation, 1967-1968 (Project no 107), as featured in Archigram 8, 1968 (Project no 1008). Bowstead"s work is referenced in "Too much: art and society in the Sixties 1960-1975" (Robert Hewson 1986), "Burning the Box of Beautiful Things" (Alex Seago), and "Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of Rifle Brigade Kitaj" (James Aulich). In 2001, he became Head of Visual and Performing Arts at the Working Men"s College, and currently teaches on the College"s Access to Art & Design course.
Many Bowstead students later studied at Goldsmiths, Camberwell, Chelsea, Street Martins and the London College of Communication.
This led to the exhibition "Four Young Artists" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.