Translate
Isobel Kingswell
27 March–13 April

Translate represents the structure of the natural world as a collision of living parts, all in conversation with one another. In her paintings, nature’s fragments reach toward one another, sometimes hesitantly, sometimes with urgency. They slip between cracks, push against fences, or in many instances, wholly subsume the design of human structures. Using colour and pattern, Isobel evokes the rhythm of the natural landscape, as it moves through, around, and over the impositions of human design. 

In these works, the artist celebrates nature’s insistence on reclaiming space, continually asserting its agency and resilience. Her work encourages viewers to think about how human trespasses often fail to recognise the interdependence of systems within the natural world. Her paintings serve as a form of repair, visually reconnecting the vital lines of interdependence between all living things. 

Translate is a reflection on a lost language. Once spoken clearly between systems, now too frequently interrupted, distorted, or ignored. The paintings invite viewers to rediscover a means of communication with the natural world so that they may consciously engage in the wider conversation that sustains them.