Phoebe Barnicoat Guest RWS

Interweaving images of everyday domesticity, marshland, and goblin trickery, you never know what you’re going to find in the work of artist Phoebe Barnicoat. And neither does she. Whether through paint, digital animation or bricolage, her work is a colourful summoning of otherworldliness, alongside life’s absurd banalities. Hard fought, her images morph restlessly, avoiding a single recognizable style. Through extensive editing, reworking, and often outright destruction, forms and body parts emerge in awkward fragments. Her claustrophobic visions take shape with fervour, raw and aggressive, but streaked through with hints of cheeky humour and tenderness. Barnicoat has been exhibited at Tate St Ives (2025), The Centre for Recent Drawing (2022), Christies (2019) and the Fleming Collection (2013) amongst others. She is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and Glasgow School of Art. She is director of Co-Motion, a Community Interest Company that connects neurodiverse artists with creative technology.