Isabella is a Latin American artist from Brazil whose practice emerges from the understanding that personal experiences of anxiety reflect broader communal unease about climate collapse and global uncertainty. Coming from the Global South, a place shaped by histories of displacement and colonisation, they witnessed firsthand how traditional ways of being proved insufficient for processing the overwhelming complexities of environmental grief and collective experiences.
What began as a personal exploration of gender identity evolved through climate anxiety into a signature approach: narrative paintings that require time to unlock their meanings - time which for the artist is a ritual as much as making art.
They embrace ambiguity, fragmentation, and abstraction as tools of resistance. Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s concept of opacity—the right to remain undefined or untranslatable—They see their work as a refusal to conform to dominant systems of meaning. They often use invented landscapes and non-linear narratives to express dislocation, memory, and becoming.
They aim to create spaces where complexity is protected, and where bodies, like ecosystems, are understood as deeply emotional and mutable homes. The work invites viewers to pause in this in-between—to imagine being alive as a shared, transformative process.
Selected Exhibitions
2025: Surroundings, organised by Dark Yellow Dot, Genesis Cinema London
2025: Florestania, organised by Insights of an Eco Artist, Online
2025: Anticipation, organised by Knst Collective, SET Ealing, London
2024: KNST collective Launch event, Bermondsey Arts Club, London
2024: Pivotal Scholarship Group Exhibition, Karamel N22, London
2023: Art Matters 2, Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
2023: Women’s Spring Open Exhibition at The Brady Arts, London
Education
Insights of an Eco Artist program (Scholarship), Art Breeding Change Residency, 2023-2024
Advanced Painting Course (Scholarship), The Essential School of Painting, London, 2023-2024
Bachelors in Multimedia Arts, Belas Artes University, Lisbon, 2019
Professional Contributions
DYCP project called Pulped pages, a series of workshops with artist Lucie Macgregor - 2024
Artist assistant at Hadi Falapishi exhibition ‘As Free as Birds’, at CCA Goldsmiths, London, 2022
KNST Collective, London: Collective of artists crafting workshops and exhibitions - Ongoing
Sycamore Collective - Ongoing
Verified Champions for Climate Change - Ongoing