Phoebe Unwin

Phoebe Unwin (b. 1979, Cambridge, UK) is a British painter recognised for her distinctive approach to abstraction, merging memory, perception and everyday experience through a rich visual language. Unwin studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2016. She is currently an Associate Professor of Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include The Pointed Finger (Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2023), Osmosis (Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2020), Iris (Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 2019) and Field (Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2018). Recent group exhibitions include A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now (Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, 2025); Wings of a Butterfly (Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2025); and the Drawing Biennial 2024 (Drawing Room, London, 2024).

Unwin’s work is held in major public collections, including Tate, the Government Art Collection, the Arts Council Collection and the British Council Collection, as well as international institutions such as the Maramotti Collection (Italy), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and Yale Center for British Art (USA).