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Isabella


                                                   Tessier






















             Isabella Tessier is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, based in London. She is a recent graduate of the Royal
             College of Art with an MA in Print and obtained her Fine Art BA (Hons) at Newcastle University. For her research into
             time and the body, she received the Stanley Picker Tutorship (2024), the Gwen May Recent Graduate Award from the
             Royal  Society  of  Painter-Printmakers  (2024),  the  Rosemary  Simmons  Lithography  Award  (2024),  and  the  Venice
             Biennale  British  Council  Research  Fellowship  (2022).  Isabella  has  had  her  work  exhibited  in  the  Clifford  Chance
             Postgraduate Printmaking Survey (2024), Bankside Gallery, RBSA Gallery (2024), and Woolwich International Print Fair
             (2023)  while  her  research  paper  ‘Sites  of  Temporal  Collaboration’  was  presented  at  Spaces(s)  Postgraduate
             Conference in Glasgow (2024) and she was invited to be a panelist for the MeCCSA Symposium on "Intelligent"
             Technologies, Ravensbourne (2024) presenting her video work ‘The Technological Gaze’.
             Isabella Tessier's art practice is at the intersection of technology, performance, and print. Working in collaboration with
             dance groups, theatre companies, and schools, Isabella creates embodied translations of performance that explore
             dynamics of immediacy and trace, connection and longing, and movement and stillness, applying Dodi Huberman’s
             concept of ‘unease in representation’ to an understanding of the body. Her practice symbolizes the transience of
             movement through an unfixed representation of bodily movement. Exploring a methodology of drawing that bridges
             the material and digital, each translation is a re-performance and transformation of the original act and examines the
             interconnection between gestures of seeing, making and moving that define the human experience.



             Unsettled Bodies, An Embodied Gaze - Stone lithograph Diptych, 100x130cm, 2024               92
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