Published by Gay Men’s Press, 1981. Excellent Condition. Original press release and advertisements from Gay Men's Press included.
Accepted at the Slade School of Fine Art at the unusually young age of 17, Dubsky’s early work was influenced by the work of the Anglo-Jewish artist David Bomberg. Dubsky was included in the New Generation show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1966 and 1968. Awarded a Harkness Fellowship, he traveled to New York, where he lived from 1969 until 1971 and co-created with John Button a large mural in paint and collage at the then-headquarters of the Gay Activists Alliance. The mural was lost in the arson attack that destroyed the building.
From the 1970s, Dubsky liked to sketch prehistoric bone and skeleton forms at the Natural History Museum and returned to expressionist figuration. His last solo exhibition ‘X Factor’ at South London Gallery in 1983 contained Cabaret Valhalla, now held by the Tate Gallery. His poems and illustrations in ‘Tom Pilgrim’s Progress Among The Consequences of Christianity’ was the artist’s (who was an atheist), angry response to the 1977 blasphemy trial of Gay News. The inside covers reproduce the Gay Alliance mural made with Button and figures within explicitly engage with Crucifixes and resemble monk-like characters.
Dubsky died on 4 August 1985 following a period of illness caused by HIV infection shortly after winning the Tolly Cobbold Drawing Prize with ‘Roma II’. He is buried in the eastern section of Highgate Cemetery alongside the main west path.
