Isabelle Zetterström

English-Swedish artist (b. 1995), based in London, UK.

Zetterström’s ethereal oeuvre spans painting, works on paper, ceramics, and performance, with her oil painted portals gazing into imagined micro- and macrocosmic worlds. Exploring themes of identity, movement, and interconnectedness, she reveals how the self exists within the collective and how microscopic structures reflect the vastness of the universe.

Zetterström completed a Fine Art Foundation at The Art Academy and studied 3D Effects for Performance and Fashion at UAL before choosing to focus entirely on painting. In 2025, she will begin an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, currently a resident at The Bomb Factory in Marylebone. Her work has been exhibited and performed across London, including her solo exhibition Lucid at Crate Walthamstow and group shows such as Somethings Fermenting 3.0 at Cosimo x Renegade Wine Bar. Her live painting performances, Motion Flow at Crate and Trash Princess at Matchstick House, as well as films documenting her process by Adelina Apetrei and Thamina Begum, offer audiences a visceral, intimate view of my approach. Guided by material exploration and intuition, akin to the Taoist principle of spontaneous creativity, inspiration emerges from the void and manifests moment by moment, weaving narratives that unfurl across the canvas.

As a dyslexic artist, mark-making is her primary language, a means of building immersive worlds where visual-spatial thinking transcends the limits of written expression. Orchestrating a dance between abstraction and pictorial space, ethereal landscapes of shimmering textures pulsate with biomorphic life, evoking the presence of the all-encompassing sublime, finding herself reflected in the lustre of a mystical mirage.