Phoebe Boswell
Phoebe Boswell The Space Between Things, Autograph, London, 2019.
Born
Phoebe Wanjiru Boswell

(1982-01-02) 2 January 1982 (age 42)
Nairobi, Kenya
OccupationMulti-media Artist / Film maker

Phoebe Boswell (born 2 January 1982), is a multi-media artist and film maker based in London, UK.[1] She has won awards in the UK and Ukraine.[2][3]

Early life

Phoebe Boswell was born in Nairobi, Kenya, the daughter of Timothy, a pilot, and Joyce, a teacher. They moved to Oman when she was two years old, and then to Bahrain three years later. She attended St. Christopher's School in Isa Town, Bahrain, followed by Hurtwood House. Moving to London, Boswell studied at Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London and the Slade School of Art at the University of London.[1] She then moved back to Bahrain to make sense of her expatriate childhood, and a solo exhibition comprising portraits and recorded conversations was held at the National Museum in Bahrain, and published as Bahrainona.[4] She also co-founded the arts society, Elham. Her graduate film The Girl With Stories in Her Hair was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Film at the British Animation Awards Public Choice, Best Student film at the Bradford Animation Festival, and Best Animation in Rushes Soho Shorts.

Career

Phoebe Boswell's multimedia art works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the UK, the US, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Italy. She has won the first ever Sky Academy Arts Scholarship (2011),[1][5] and the $20,000 Special Prize in the 2017 Future Generation Prize in Kiev,[6][7] which led to her work Mutumia being shown at the Vienna Biennale the same year. Her work has been described as using "layered methods of storytelling"[8] to explore cultural roots and identity[9] and "transient middle points and passages of migration".[3] It deals with "the subject of frailty and belief systems",[3] "questions the misrepresentation of the female and the Black body in society and culture",[2] and "recast[s the female nude] as a site of power and heroism".[10]

Filmography

Exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2019

2018

2017

2007

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Exhibition: Phoebe Boswell: Take Me to the Lighthouse". Contemporary&. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Takengny, Christine (25 January 2018). "News - Artist to watch - Phoebe Boswell". Contemporary Art Society. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what 'home' is, migration, family and Kenya's troubled past". True Africa. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  4. ^ Boswell, Phoebe (2006). Bahrainona: Drawing from Life. Bahrain Media. ISBN 9789990110265.
  5. ^ a b "Sky Academy Skills Studios" (PDF). Sky Academy. September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  6. ^ a b "2017 Future Generation Art Prize winners announced". Art Review. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Phoebe Boswell - Future Generation Arts Prize". Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  8. ^ a b Olaniyan, Oyin (16 January 2018). "Phoebe Boswell on Acknowledging Women and Dismantling the Male Gaze". Omenka. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  9. ^ Kampmann, Susanne (2018). "Phoebe Boswell". Arte.tv. WDR, Germany. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  10. ^ Judah, Hettie (3 October 2018). "In 2018 a woman is still more likely to feature in a gallery as a painted nude than as a painter". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  11. ^ O'Reilly, Christopher; Bavasso, Charlotte; Ponzevera, Christine (eds.). Best Of British Animation Awards Vol. 8. British Animation Awards. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Phoebe Boswell". P.5 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  13. ^ Sosibo, Kwanele (24 May 2017). "What does it matter if a man is in the room?". Mail & Guardian. Johannesburg, South Africa. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  14. ^ Klein, Alyssa (18 May 2016). "Phoebe Boswell On Her James Baldwin-Inspired Tinder Project, 'Stranger In The Village'". OkayAfrica. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  15. ^ White, Erin (16 May 2016). "Biracial Kenyan artist Phoebe Boswell Uses Racist Tinder Flirtations For Artistic Look At Race and Sex". AFROPUNK. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  16. ^ Jansen, Charlotte (3 May 2018). "Collecting: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the female gaze". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  17. ^ "A story within a story…, the 8th edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), announces its participating artists". Biennial Foundation. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  18. ^ Coussonnet, Clelia (11 September 2015). "The Matter of Memory by Phoebe Boswell". IAM Intense Art Magazine. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  19. ^ Greslé, Yvette (2 May 2015). "Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory". Africanah.org. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  20. ^ "Trade Roots". KH Kristin Hjellegjerde. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  21. ^ "Phoebe Boswell interview, Autograph, London, 25 February 2019". studio international at vimeo.com. 25 February 2019.
  22. ^ "Exhibitions: Phoebe Boswell 2019.02.02 - 2019.04.14". Göteborgs Konsthall. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  23. ^ "Installation view Phoebe Boswell: She Summons an Army". Contemporary&. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  24. ^ "Artist Phoebe Boswell in conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, May 10". Art+Culture. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  25. ^ Wheadon, Nico (11 July 2018). "PHOEBE BOSWELL: Take Me To The Lighthouse". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  26. ^ Greslé, Yvette (November 2017). "For Every Real Word Spoken by Phoebe Boswell (review)". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (41). Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/10757163-4271838. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  27. ^ Frank, Priscilla (4 April 2017). "Artist Proposes A New Way Of Seeing Nude Women At The Museum". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 November 2018.

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