Phoebe Boswell
The Call
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| Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Medium | Pencil on paper |
| Dimensions | 29.7 x 35 cm |
| Nominated by | Hannah O'Leary |
About the work
The Call is one of the first in what extended into a capsule of drawings created between December 2020 and April 2021, while Phoebe Boswell was sequestered during the UK’s third government-mandated national lockdown. Using drawing as a way to pass the time, sense herself, and process the year we have had, the personal and the everyday transformed from diaristic snapshots of Boswell’s life in lockdown: self-portraits drawn via the digital interfaces we have been using to stay connected; screenshots and memes captured as if mid-scroll; solitary scenes of long, empty corridors, wilted flowers, and numerous drawings of the same sky seen from Boswell’s apartment window. In The Call, drawn from life (if we can call the now over-familiar Zoom screen ‘life’), Boswell wanted to accentuate the intermingled feelings of fatigue, dread, grief, fear, horror, and languishing numbness that we have all been growing accustomed to, extending the themes of portraiture, technology, grief, memory, identity and resilience that her wider practice has long explored.
