Phoebe Boswell brings new work to Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate Underground
London-based artist Phoebe Boswell will present new site-specific artworks at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate Underground stations as part of Transport for London’s Art on the Underground programme, opening on 25 March 2026.
Boswell’s interdisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, video, animation, sound, interactivity, and writing. Her figurative work explores freedom, grief, intimacy, and migration through a Black feminist diasporic lens, with a focus on care in how we see ourselves and each other. Her recent projects examine bodies of water as sites of historical trauma and renewal, a theme central to this new commission.
Copyright Phoebe Boswell. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Courtesy the artist.
The works will feature four photographic assemblages on panels alongside the escalators, inspired by London’s hidden waterways. Notting Hill Gate is near the River Westbourne and Bethnal Green close to the River Walbrook, both diverted underground in the nineteenth century. Boswell’s work traces aquatic journeys and migratory routes, highlighting water as a container for resistance, joy, intimacy, remembrance, and possibility.
For this commission, Boswell worked with local swimming communities, photographing Black swimmers underwater and layering the images into stop-frame-inspired sequences. The movement of passengers along the escalators animates the works, echoing early moving-image techniques, and continuing Boswell’s exploration of water as a site of endurance, healing, and Black diasporic memory.
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