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Phoebe Boswell (b.1982) was born in Kenya, brought up in the Arabian Gulf and currently lives and works in London. Her practice – which moves across media from drawing and painting, to film, video, sound, and writing – uses auto/biographical stories as catalysts to contest histories, traverse geographies and ecologies, and imagine futurity.
Recent exhibitions include Living Water, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, UK; Splash, Design Museum, London, UK; Like Hydrogen, Like Oxygen, Ben Hunter, London, UK; A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles), Orleans House, London, UK; Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London, UK; Loophole of Retreat, Venice Biennale, Italy; Manifesto of Fragility, La Biennale de Lyon, France; How the light gets in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York City, USA; HERE, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden; Liminal Beach, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany; UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK. 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, and was Whitechapel Gallery’s 2022 writer-in-residence. In 2025 she was one of the artists selected for DRAW! as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
Bowell’s work is held in public collections globally, including The British Museum, London, UK; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA; RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA; The British Film Institute’s National Archive, Berkhamsted, UK; the Government Art Collection, London, UK; and The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, UK (acquired by Contemporary Art Society).
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