Phoebe Boswell is an emerging artist and filmmaker, based in London. Born in Kenya and brought up as an expatriate in the Middle East, she graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2005 and received a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Character Animation from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2009. Her student film, The Girl With Stories In Her Hair, was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Film in the British Animation Awards Public Choice, Best Student film in The Bradford Animation Festival, and Best Animation in Rushes Soho Shorts. She has been commissioned to create animations for 12foot6 and Wingspan Productions, her latest project being the creation of an animated world to integrate on top of live action in a documentary for BBC4 entitled The Pendle Witch Child. She meanwhile continues to explore her independent practice, and, in this regard, she was recently nominated for a 2012 Fellowship in Animation from the Arts Foundation by Jayne Pilling, founder and director of the British Animation Awards. The awards will be announced early next year. 

Phoebe Boswell's practice has, so far, been realised through graphic paintings, pencil drawings, portraits and largescale vinyl tableaus which colonise architectural surface to surround the viewer. Most recently, she has introduced moving image into her work through animation, and has begun to combine still drawings with projected animation, the interplay making each medium mutually exposed and dependent on the other. The drawings are rooted, the animations entirely mobile. This departure, weighted by her varied formal trajectory, addresses the artist's concerns with duality within the transient nature of her post-colonial, global upbringing.

Poised between fine art and new media, Phoebe Boswell's work involves both traditional draughtsmanship and digital technology, playing with attributes of the two to create charged drawings, animations, and installations which tell stories of human endeavour, examining and responding to universal themes such as birth, procreation, betrayal, belief, and death, within our collective contemporary experience.