Show and Tell: Artists Talks, Phoebe Unwin 

Phoebe Urwin, Interior Man, 2010

Through artists telling their stories, and acting as role models, Show & Tell aims to create a realistic idea of what it is to be a professional artist today. Concentrating on practical ways to sustain a practice, through good times and bad, success and disappointment, we ask experienced mid-career artists: how did you get where you are today and how do you survive as an artist?

'Urwin references and explores a world we all experience visually, verbally and sensationally: a figure infects and affects its space, as if thoughts are made into things; a grubby patterned Underground seat blocks a view; the shape of a head is formed by the uniformed edge of toothpaste-like stripes; pictures of notepaper become a collected mass of white on whites' *

Phoebe Urwin was born in Cambridge 1979 and lives and works in London. She studied at Newcastle University and Slade School of Fine Art. Currently her work is exhibited as part of the British Art Show 7, a Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition.

*www.wilkinsongallery.com
http://www.coregallery.co.uk/show-and-tell/