Isabella Darcy
Isabella Darcy is an early-career cross-media artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Darcy works across a diverse range of media, including installation, photography, printmaking, textiles, and expanded painting. Her practice follows an interest in the systems and flux of value within consumable objects and design. Through her use of materials, she interrogates how distinct modes of value are layered within mass-produced items. She reflects on these materials' alignment with contemporary culture, material culture and human consumption.
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include, Soft Furnishing with Anne-Marie May, CAVES, 2023, Articles of Blue, Black & White, Conners Conners Gallery, 2022, Luxury & Labour, Disneyland Paris, 2020, Reworked (second iteration), C3 Contemporary Art Space, 2020, springsummer95, Cathedral Cabinet, 2018 curated by Emma Nixon.
Recent group shows include SPHERE Archive Project, 2024, Splitting Hairs, Green Floor Gallery, 2024 , Frozen Blood, Neon Parc, 2023, Backwash, Drill Hall Gallery, 2023, Material Remains, Linden New Art, 2023, Jeans & Bags, NOD Space, 2022 Text Tile, CAVES Gallery, 2022 New Photographers, PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography, James Makin Gallery, 2022 Cooking With John, Haydens Gallery, 2021 curated by Amalia Lindo and Jacqueline Stojanović, Future Proof: National Graduate Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, 2021, Drawing Folio 3: Abstraction, Blockprojects curated by John Nixon and Justin Andrews, 2019, the corner of the drawer, Bus Projects, 2019, Behind the Seen, NARS Foundation, 2019 curated by Vanessa Kowalski, Collectively, West Space, 2019 and caught up in things, Irene Rose, 2018.
Isabella is currently an artist in residence with The City of Port Phillip’s Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios. She was also a resident artist at Hayden’s Gallery, 2021-2024, and an artist in residence with the NARS Foundation, New York, 2019. Isabella was also a recipient of the John Nixon Award, 2020, Megalo Print Studio Award, 2020 and West Space Award, 2016. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2020 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017 from Monash University, and continues to exhibit regularly in Melbourne.
