About
Isobel Scott-Malden lives and works in London, UK and was born there in 1998. She had always wanted to paint but focused on sculpture and other crafts until she studied art history and was inspired to teach herself to paint in oil.
She had her debut sell-out solo show in 2021 and was the winner of the Women in Art Emerson Award for Young Woman Artist (2021) and the Women in Art People's Vote prize (2021). She also featured in the Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in 2024. Her featured painting was the first to sell in the show and was awarded Highly Commended by The Philip de Laszlo Foundation. She was also longlisted for the international 2023 Jackson's Painting Prize in the top 4% of 11,000+ entries. Her work has featured in group shows in London galleries, including The Gallery at Green & Stone summer show 2024 where her painting was used as the cover image for the whole exhibition.
Isobel takes inspiration from art history, her surroundings, poetry and her imagination. She tries to create work that is detailed and meaningful, has a dialogue with the past, but also remains contemporary. Her paintings tend to cut through to intense realism whilst retaining an other-worldly quality and they often have a sense of precarity or a particular feeling to them that has a life of its own beyond the subject.
Her style is detailed and labour-intensive so she takes a long time to consider her compositions and then meticulously realise them. Each painting can take up to three months to complete.
Education
Self-taught
Selected exhibitions
2024 - 'Serendipity' exhibition at The Gallery Holt
2024 - 'World of Interiors' exhibition at Byard Art Gallery
2024 - Summer show at The Gallery at Green & Stone
2024 - Summer show at The Russell Gallery
2024 - Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries
2022 - Winter show at The Russell Gallery
2022 - Summer show at The Russell Gallery
2022 - Women In Art Prize show
2022 - 'Huxi Respiration' exhibition at Goldsmiths University
2021 - Winter show at The Russell Gallery
2021 - Solo exhibition at The Greenwich Gallery
Prizes & awards
2024 - Highly Commended by The Philip de Laszlo Foundation
2023 - Long-listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize
2021 - Women In Art Emerson Award for Young Woman Artist
2021 - Women In Art People's Vote Prize
Contact
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