Phoebe Boswell Explained

Phoebe Boswell
Birthname:Phoebe Wanjiru Boswell
Birth Date:2 January 1982
Birth Place:Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation:Multi-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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Exhibition: Phoebe Boswell: Take Me to the Lighthouse . Contemporary& . 2 November 2018.
  2. Web site: Takengny . Christine . News - Artist to watch - Phoebe Boswell . Contemporary Art Society . 2 November 2018 . 25 January 2018.
  3. Web site: Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what 'home' is, migration, family and Kenya's troubled past . True Africa . 2 November 2018 . 5 November 2015.
  4. Book: Boswell . Phoebe . Bahrainona: Drawing from Life . 2006 . Bahrain Media . 9789990110265.
  5. Web site: Sky Academy Skills Studios . Sky Academy . 2 November 2018 . September 2015.
  6. Web site: 2017 Future Generation Art Prize winners announced . Art Review . 2 November 2018 . 20 March 2017.
  7. Web site: Phoebe Boswell - Future Generation Arts Prize. 5 November 2018.
  8. Web site: Olaniyan . Oyin . Phoebe Boswell on Acknowledging Women and Dismantling the Male Gaze . Omenka . 2 November 2018 . 16 January 2018.
  9. Web site: Kampmann . Susanne . Phoebe Boswell . Arte.tv . 2 November 2018 . WDR, Germany . 2018.
  10. Judah . Hettie . In 2018 a woman is still more likely to feature in a gallery as a painted nude than as a painter . Evening Standard . 3 October 2018 . 2 November 2018 . London.
  11. Web site: Shakespeare Lives . 2024-08-12 . shakespearelives.org.
  12. Book: O'Reilly . Christopher . Bavasso . Charlotte . Ponzevera . Christine . Best Of British Animation Awards Vol. 8 . British Animation Awards . 2 November 2018.
  13. Web site: Phoebe Boswell . P.5 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow . 16 December 2022.
  14. Sosibo . Kwanele . What does it matter if a man is in the room? . Mail & Guardian . 24 May 2017 . 2 November 2018 . Johannesburg, South Africa.
  15. Web site: Klein . Alyssa . Phoebe Boswell On Her James Baldwin-Inspired Tinder Project, 'Stranger In The Village' . OkayAfrica . 2 November 2018 . 18 May 2016.
  16. Web site: White . Erin . Biracial Kenyan artist Phoebe Boswell Uses Racist Tinder Flirtations For Artistic Look At Race and Sex . AFROPUNK . 2 November 2018 . 16 May 2016.
  17. Jansen . Charlotte . Collecting: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the female gaze . Financial Times . 3 May 2018 . 2 November 2018.
  18. Web site: A story within a story…, the 8th edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), announces its participating artists. . Biennial Foundation . 2 November 2018 . 12 May 2015.
  19. Coussonnet . Clelia . The Matter of Memory by Phoebe Boswell . IAM Intense Art Magazine . 11 September 2015 . 2 November 2018.
  20. Web site: Greslé . Yvette . Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory . Africanah.org . 2 November 2018 . 2 May 2015.
  21. Web site: Trade Roots . KH Kristin Hjellegjerde . 2 November 2018.
  22. Web site: Phoebe Boswell interview, Autograph, London, 25 February 2019. studio international at vimeo.com . 25 February 2019.
  23. Web site: Exhibitions: Phoebe Boswell 2019.02.02 - 2019.04.14 . Göteborgs Konsthall . 2 November 2018.
  24. Installation view Phoebe Boswell: She Summons an Army . Contemporary& . 1 October 2018 . 2 November 2018.
  25. Web site: Artist Phoebe Boswell in conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, May 10 . Art+Culture . 2 November 2018.
  26. Wheadon . Nico . PHOEBE BOSWELL: Take Me To The Lighthouse . The Brooklyn Rail . 11 July 2018 . 2 November 2018.
  27. Greslé . Yvette . For Every Real Word Spoken by Phoebe Boswell (review) . Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art . November 2017 . 41 . 2 November 2018 . Duke University Press. 10.1215/10757163-4271838 .
  28. Frank . Priscilla . Artist Proposes A New Way Of Seeing Nude Women At The Museum . Huffington Post . 4 April 2017 . 2 November 2018.