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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.

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