Eye I

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Phoebe Boswell (b. 1982, Kenya) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in London. Born in Nairobi to a Kikuyu mother and British Kenyan father, and brought up in the Arabian Gulf, she combines traditional drawing with digital technology to create layered works that conjure an in-between state of diasporic consciousness. Boswell studied Painting at the Slade School of Art and 2D Animation at Central St Martins, London and her work has been exhibited with galleries including Carroll / Fletcher, Kristin Hjellegjerde, InIVA and Tiwani Contemporary and has screened at Sundance, the London Film Festival, LA Film Festival, Blackstar and CinemAfrica, amongst others. She participated in the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015 and was commissioned to make new work for the Biennial of Moving Images 2016 at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. Boswell was the first recipient of the Sky Academy Arts Scholarship (2012), was awarded the Special Prize at the Future Generation Art Prize for her interactive installation Mutumia, which consequently showed as part of the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and has been made a Ford Foundation fellow. She has been a Somerset House artist-in-residence, and the 2019 Bridget Riley Fellow at The British School at Rome.

People

Phoebe Boswell (1982 - )

Places

Subjects

self-portrait

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), pencil, pencil drawing

Artist

Phoebe Boswell (1982 - )

Title

Eye I

Date

2018

Medium

Pencil on paper

Dimensions

height: 27.8 cm; width: 20.6 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sapar Contemporary Gallery, August 2018

Provenance

with Sapar Contemporary, New York; purchased by the GAC, August 2018

GAC number

18772