Phoebe Unwin's paintings explore perceptions of everyday experience. Her invented figurative images and their corresponding relation to mark, scale and colour, fuse to visually articulate the variety of feelings invested in looking.
Phoebe Unwin (b. 1979, Cambridge, UK) studied at Newcastle University (BA Hons 1998 – 2002) and Slade School of Fine Art (MFA 2002 – 2005). Recent exhibitions include The Pointed Finger, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London (2023); Osmosis, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London (2020); Iris, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne UK (2019); The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2019); Field, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2018); Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China (2020); Le Realtà Ordinarie, Banca di Bologna, Bologna (2020); Cet Elixir, Moly-Sabata Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons, France (2019); The Day in the Evening, Space K, Seoul (2018); 31 Women, Breese Little Gallery, London (2017); Portrait, for a Screenplay, of Beth Harmon, Tenderpixel, London (2017); Illicit Flowers, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany (2016); Towards Night, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2016); Walk Through 500 Years of British Art, Tate Britain, London (2016); Distant People and Self-Soothing Objects, Wilkinson Gallery, London (2015); One Day Something Happens: Paintings of People, work selected from the Arts Council Collection by Jennifer Higgie (2015-16); Emotional Resources, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2014-15) and The British Art Show 7 The Days of the Comet, a Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition (2010-11).
