Phoebe Boswell
Phoebe Boswell, The Black Horizon (Do We Muse On The Sky Or Remember The Sea), 2021. Courtesy: Phoebe Boswell.
Phoebe Boswell‘s figurative and interdisciplinary practice denotes a commitment of care for how we see ourselves and each other. Her work explores notions of freedom in protest, grief, intimacy, migration, love, the body and its world-making.
Using auto/biographical stories as catalysts to contest histories and imagine futures. Working intuitively across media, she creates immersive installations which affect and are affected by the environments they occupy, by time, gestalt, the serendipity of loops, and the presence of the audience.
Phoebe’s paintings, drawings, installations and film & video works have been exhibited and held in collections widely, including The British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the British Film Institute’s National Archive and the UK Government Art Collection. She was the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School of Rome in 2019, received the Lumière Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2021, was Whitechapel Gallery’s 2022 writer in residence, and was commissioned to make new work for the Lyon Biennale in 2022.
She recently exhibited in Rites of Passage at Gagosian and is working on a new solo exhibition titled A Sanctuary of Trees at Orleans House in London, where she will inhabit both the building and its surrounding woodlands in a multi-sensory installation honouring the voices of our elders. Phoebe was born in Nairobi, Kenya, grew up in the Arabian Gulf, and lives and works in London.