Phoebe Boswell

Final couple of days to see these pastels up at Ben Hunter 💛 Repost • @benhunter.gallery To coincide with Phoebe Boswell’s Art on the Underground commission, Ben Hunter is pleased to announce a focussed display of works by the artist at the gallery. Boswell’s recent work has considered the dichotomy of bodies of water as both repositories of painful historical experience and sites of renewal and hope. The presentation will run until Wednesday 15 April. To request a preview, please contact [email protected] #phoebeboswell @phoebe.boswell

Last week we celebrated the launch of Phoebe Boswell’s new artwork, ‘we move through scales of blue’ at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate stations! This new work traces the notion of the waterway, evoking aquatic journeys and migratory routes to, from, and within London. Following a call out to local swimming communities, this new large scale work features multi-layered photographic tableaus of Black swimmers who have made London their home, or whose families have migrated here across generations. We were thrilled to gather with the particpants and supporters last week to unveil the work. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Photos: Benedict Johnson @benedictjohnsonphoto #phoebeboswell #artontheunderground

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LONDON: in two weeks I’m organising a panel discussion and creative meet-up as part of the @londonkindred ‘We Make Space’ programme and would love if you could be there. Tuesday 7th April, 7pm - 9:30pm. SO excited for the talented panellists I’ve confirmed to join us on the day: - Phoebe Boswell (@phoebe.boswell ) is an interdisciplinary artist. The first image on the flyer is a section of her installation “The Black Horizon: Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember The Sea” (2021), drawn onto the wall at the CAC Nola for Prospect P5, New Orleans. - Elikem Logan (@elikem_logan ) is an Ghanaian Art Historian and Writer   - Joshua Woolford (@jshwlfrd ) is a transdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, video, and installation. The second image on the flyer is taken from their Alice Yard Exhibition. The conversation will be hosted by Gabriel Luciani (@gabriel_virgilio_luciani ), a London-based curator (via Barcelona) who seeks to uplift voices approaching topics of queerness, decoloniality and restitution for marginalised positionalities.  - Complimentary ticket link in bio, via Partiful. - Accessible venue with gender neutral toilets. - Non-alcoholic drinks available on the day. - Pop-up library curated to centre voices of resistance and cultural heritage. - 45 minute ‘In Conversation’ followed by a 15-minute Q&A - 18+ policy There will be time before and after the panel discussion to chat with other attendees, make new connections or simply find a quiet spot to read a book and reflect on the topics discussed. Key pillars of conversation will centre on Afro-dreamscapes, shaping the contemporary gaze, artistic world-building in the margins, Queer Surrealism and Futurism. For any safeguarding concerns, accessibility requirements or general queries please email: [email protected] ❤️

‘we move through scales of blue’ by Phoebe Boswell now on view at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate stations. This new series of large-scale artworks expands on Boswell’s recent work exploring water as a container for resistance, joy, remembrance and possibility. The Tube shares its space beneath the city with a labyrinth of lost rivers and waterways. ‘we move through scales of blue’ traces the notion of the waterway, evoking aquatic journeys and migratory routes to, from, and within London. Guided by the hydro-feminist view that all bodies of water are connected, the work is conceived as ‘a call to the surface’ – an invitation to a collective consciousness about the world we inhabit. This builds on Boswell’s ongoing practice of reclaiming water for Black diasporic communities, after she encountered the Black Swimming Association’s statistic that 96% of Black British adults don’t swim regularly. Following a call out to local swimming communities, we move through scales of blue features multi-layered photographic tableaus of Black swimmers who have made London their home, or whose families have migrated here across generations. Participants were photographed underwater, responding intuitively to prompts from Boswell. Utilising traditional stop-frame animation techniques, Boswell has layered still images into complex sequences which are brought to life by passengers’ movement up and down the escalators. With ‘we move through scales of blue’, Boswell asks us to consider water as a site of endurance, migratory trauma, healing and collective agency. Photos by Thierry Bal @thierry_bal #phoebeboswell #artontheunderground

The idea of gathering in celebration of the nation state as a concept feels so altogether off right now, amidst the complicit brutality of this dying world. Still, I believe deeply in art, and artists. Our voices will always be stronger (and safer) together. My heart remains with the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Congo, and all oppressed people everywhere. I stand in solidarity with the signatories of ANGA’s demands and support their call to exclude Israel from the Venice Biennale. The widening war we are witnessing did not appear overnight. It grows from years of normalizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its 78 year occupation of Palestine, allowing institutions to treat it as an exception. Culture must not provide cover for genocide and the brutal imperial aggression being unleashed on Iran and Lebanon. No genocide pavilion. No artwashing in our name. Share @angalliance post to voice your support. #VeniceBiennale #artnotgenocidealliance #ANGA #CulturalBoycott #nogenocidepavilion

The Manton Centre for British Art presents… Book talk and panel discussion with author/editor Renée Mussai, joined by Professor Caroline Bressey and artist Phoebe Boswell  📆 2 April 2026 ⏰ 18:00 - 19:30 📍 Vernon Square Campus, Lecture Theatre 2 🔗 Free, booking essential. Click the link in our bio our bio to book. With a distinguished list of contributing authors and more than 300 images, Black Chronicles brings together an extraordinary collection of studio portraits that attest to the black presence in Victorian Britain. The result of ten years of curatorial research led by author/editor #RenéeMussai during her tenure as senior curator at Autograph and beyond, this book significantly expands and reframes the archive of photography in Britain, offering new perspectives on the visual politics of race, representation and difference in nineteenth-century Britain. Following an illustrated lecture, Mussai is joined by artist #PhoebeBoswell and contributing author and historical geographer Professor #CarolineBressey for a wider discussion of the book, its curatorial-editorial temperatures and thematic strands, as well as the important issues that it raises. Editor / Author Renée Musai plus additional text contributions by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Caroline Bressey, Lola Jaye, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Mark Sealy, Val Wilmer. This event is organised by Professor Steve Edwards, Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Centre for British Art, The Courtauld. Image: Renée Mussai ed. Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, Published by Thames & Hudson and Autograph, 2025. Cover photograph courtesy © Hulton Archive / Getty Images. #autographabp

📣 A new multi-site artwork by Phoebe Boswell coming soon! ‘we move through scales of blue’ expands on Boswell’s recent work exploring water as a container for resistance, joy, remembrance and possibility. This new series of multi-layered photographic tableaus will be on view at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate station from 25 March 2026. Photo: Benedict Johnson #phoebeboswell #artontheunderground

A pleasure to be a judge in this year’s Cass Art Prize 2026, alongside @antoniashowering @danielcrewschubb @ekoweshun @freddiempowell @katy.hessel and @kayedonachie . Entries are now open @cassart1984 , till May 12. Show us your wonderful work! 🩶✨

We’re thrilled to be launching a new multi-site artwork by Phoebe Boswell at Notting Hill and Bethnal Green Underground stations in March! Phoebe Boswell is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the liminal space between our collective histories and imagined futures; how we see ourselves and each other, and, consequently, how we imagine freedom. Her recent work has considered bodies of water as both repositories of painful historical experience and sites of renewal and hope. For her Art on the Underground commission, Boswell will expand on these ideas, exploring water as a container for resistance, joy, remembrance and possibility. Images: 1. Phoebe Boswell, 📸photo: Katerina Liapis 2. Phoebe Boswell, ‘Remember (The Falling)’, 2024. Courtesy the artist and @wentrup_gallery

News is out! Thrilled to be part of this cohort of artists. Soon come 💙 Repost • @artontheunderground 2026 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT - Phoebe Boswell, Ellen Gallagher, Ain Bailey, Caroline Walker & Hurvin Anderson 📢! Art on the Underground’s programme for 2026 comprises major new works by five contemporary artists which will be displayed at Tube stations across London, including:  ​​​​​​• a series of new works by multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Boswell at Notting Hill and Bethnal Green stations launching March 2026 • a new artwork by Ellen Gallagher for the Summer 2026 Pocket Tube Map  cover • a new audio work by artist, composer and DJ Ain Bailey for Waterloo Station in June 2026 • a large-scale commission by Scottish painter Caroline Walker at Stratford station launching September 2026 • and a new artwork by Hurvin Anderson marking the 10th commission of the Brixton Mural Programme in November 2026 In its breadth and presence across London, the 2026 programme reflects historic imbalances and under-representation, reframing public space and bringing artworks to the city which are relevant to life today. Images: 1. Phoebe Boswell, ‘Ballad of the Spirits (the river trembles before it becomes the ocean)’, 2025 Courtesy of the artist and Ben Hunter, London 📷 Jack Elliot Edwards 2. Ellen Gallagher, ‘Bird in Hand’, 2026 Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth 📷 Mike Bruce 3. Ain Bailey, ‘Version (ackee sculpture)’, 2022 📷 Wilf Speller 4. Caroline Walker, ‘Imaginative Play I’, 2024 Courtesy of the artist, GRIMM, Ingleby Gallery and Stephen Friedman Gallery 📷 Peter Mallet 5. Hurvin Anderson, ‘The Harder They Fall’, 2025 Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery 📷 Ben Westoby

A reminder that December is for Drawing, beloveds! 💋❤️💌✏️ From @bradford_2025 • Phoebe Boswell has been announced as the final artist for DRAW!, the nation-wide drawing project presented by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, inspired and supported by Bradford-born artist David Hockney. Throughout the month of December, the artist is inviting the public to submit artwork inspired by her chosen theme of “memories”. Phoebe Boswell said: “What a pleasure to be the final artist for DRAW!, a project which has inspired so many people to create. The theme I’ve chosen, “memories”, invites participants to reflect on their pasts, using drawing to remind us of joyous moments in our lives, or perhaps as a way of processing, healing, or repair, or even as a point of departure where looking back might encourage an exploration of alternative futures. Or we could think of memory as entirely process-based, where you just set yourself some time to let your pencil go for a journey, and the marks on the page become the memory-making. Drawing is intimate, it is a powerful way to bring stories and feelings to life, allowing us to release or visualise what may otherwise be unseen.” DRAW! has taken place throughout 2025 and invites people from across the UK to take part by creating and sharing a drawing inspired by a particular theme set by a different artist each month. Previous artists for the project are: David Hockney, Adébayo Bolaji, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Rose Blake, Dame Zandra Rhodes, Harry Hill, Morag Myerscough, Kate Jackson, Faiza Butt, Gent 48, and Johnny Vegas. The public can share their drawings inspired by the theme of ‘memories’ by uploading them to bradford2025.co.uk/mydrawing or share them through social media with the hashtag #bradford2025 or by tagging @bradford_2025 . A selection of drawings is displayed on the Bradford 2025 website each month. bradford2025.co.uk/event/draw/ DRAW! is supported by Bradford District and Craven Mind.