Phyllis Mcgowan
Phyllis McGowan makes work about containment, narrating the reality in her head that she is unable to voice. She slows down images of the women in her films, revealing the moments when they break out of their wrapping, to see what they might be not saying too, reading her own experiences through their images and asking what living in this state of unreality costs.
She has a first-class honours degree in Sculpture exhibiting at the RSA and Tatha Gallery in Scotland and the Cello Factory in London, winning the 2018 Ingram Prize. Her MFA writing is featured in A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time, edited by Kate Briggs & Laura Haynes, 2023, and along with her photography is longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize. Her current sound and film work is shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023.