CONTACT: isobel.atacus@gmail.com / IG
Encompassing sculpture and writing, my work playfully questions the fleeting and ambivalent nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm. Stretching from the physical landscape to the intimacy of the domestic space, my practice engages with the objects and materials that surround us, upending ways we give meaning to things through re-describing their materiality in new ways. Dwelling on a frequent sense of a loss of control, my work often involves a form of exchange, subverting my own expectations of how materials might behave.
Alongside this I direct an artist-run space, the icing room. I currently live in London, with ongoing projects in Lisbon.
EDUCATION
2016-present PhD, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and King’s College London
2014-2015 MA in Modern French Literature and Culture, King’s College London
CURATORIAL
the icing room, @the_icing_room
RESIDENCIES
Lisbon Social Press, Portugal, August 2022
AZAN, Mira-Sintra de Meleças, Portugal, April-July 2022 - AHRI Grant
Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain (Invited on full bursary, postponed due to Covid)
Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, November 2016
LADA DIY: 2016, 342842 David Bowie, Colchester, Essex, September 2016
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS/COMMISSIONS
there but for the, Inigo rooms, Somerset House, London, September 2022
Days you were happy to see me, Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, August 2020
No wonder, you sense mysteriousness, Goldmali Gallery, Netherlands, July 2020,
ant. Notice Bored, Muddy Yard, Clapham estate, London, February- March 2020
only if, Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, February - March 2019
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Impermanent, Safehouse 2, Copeland Rd, London May
Who holds the sword? Hypha Studios, Stratford, London, January-March
2022
Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, December
Undercover Open, Solar dos Zagallos, Almada, Portugal July-September
AMETHYST DECEIVER, Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, May – June
WEATHERWATCHING, Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, February 2022
Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds, #6, #7, Zaratan, Supported by DGArtes
Snakes on a Picture Plane, UK Mexican Arts Society, London, January
2021
5th wall, Styroxfabriken, Jakobstad, Finland, September
When was the last time you saw the sea? Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, June
Moon, Nottingham Poetry Exchange, March
MOONGAZING, A residency run through the icing room from January- June
TEXT / POETRY
The summer I refused to shower, Vol.1 Brooklyn, December 2020
Sunburn on the moon, Wrong Wrong #17: Vertigo, August 2020
trespass: Etant donnés, Site writing presented at Modernist Art writing / Writing Modernist Art conference, University of Nottingham, June 2019
Foi, começou, foi, Wrong Wrong #15: Année érotique, May 2019
Poetry and writing have also appeared in The Beano, Inland Magazine, The Poetry Society, Vol.1 Brooklyn, MadSwirl, Revista Decadente, The Big Other, Water-Sound-City.
PRESS / PRESENTATION / OTHER
Walking as practice panel discussion, Conscious Isolation Project, June 2020
Interview with Henriette von Muenchhausen for Goldmali Gallery, July 2020, Link
Love letter, or Glass, Poetry reading for INLAND, The Poetry Society, London, October 2019
Conversation with Rhiannon Edwards for HOGA, Home Galleries Archive, May 2019 Link
I like where your head is at, Artist talk, Invited by Eloisa Ejarque (December 2016)
AWARDS/ GRANTS
Selected for Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, 2022
Arts and Humanities Research Institute Grant, 2019-2023
Longlisted for Ivan Juritz Award, 2017
COLLECTIONS
Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
Private Collection, Almada, Portugal / Margate, UK