Phoebe Boswell (b. 1982 Nairobi, Kenya / lives and works in London, UK) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Boswell's artistic practice is rooted in a restless diasporic consciousness, skillfully combining traditional draftsmanship with digital technologies, fluidly transitioning between various media including drawing, painting, film, video, sound, and writing.

In portraits of fishermen and other residents of a coastline that echoes the shores of East Africa, the ocean is a moody and powerful presence, less a backdrop to life than a steady companion. The ocean: eternal and mercurial, sheltering and threatening. A hint of its power is made evident in the shimmering, silvery reflective wall covering, mirroring the artwork back to the viewer. The lines between observer and subject, between the ocean and the city, between mirage and reality, blur.

Phoebe Boswell's works have been exhibited in international venues, including Gagosian, London; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Prospect 5, New Orleans; Drawing Biennial, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Somerset House, London; British Film Institute, London; Sundance Fim Festival, London; Constitution Hill, Johannesburg; Pinchuk Centre, Kiev; The Fine Art Society, London; Biennale of the Moving Image, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, China; Gothenburg Biennale and Royal Festival Hall, London. Boswell's works are in the collections of the British Museum, London; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; the British Film Institute’s National Archive, Berkhamsted; the Government Art Collection, London and the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. The artist has also received numerous awards, including the Lumière Award of the Royal Photographic Society (2021); Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2020); Bridget Riley Fellowship, British School at Rome (2019); Ford Foundation Fellowship (2017); Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev (2017).