Isadora Marriott

About

My work encapsulates my love of screen print, colour and reminiscence. I am seeking a balance between the joy and the other less joyful things in life, like grief, loneliness and mental health. Pulling together my own film photos of people and places, and overlaying them with saccharine sweet colours, all screen printed on paper, playing between kitsch and neo-pop. I examine my own personal experiences and vulnerability for audiences’  to draw on their own and entice conversation and engagement authentically; hoping to make life ultimately easier.

In my recent works I have been focusing on my own experiences of grief and subsequent displacement. I have been exploring my new relationship with my hometown of Brighton, and how it has changed since the sudden loss of my father. In using colour, texture and collage, I hope to re-spark joy to a place I once loved the most, or fake it until it comes back. But in this research I have discovered the change in the city itself, how the mass exodus of London commuters has altered the feel and environment, and how what once was may be truly gone.  

I have always felt drawn towards communication through art, and developed this through my time at UAL and now RCA, on MA Print, where I am supported by the Leverhulme Scholarship. Here I find constant inspiration and new ways of expression, through learning, discussion and collaboration. This blended with my childhood in Brighton and now living in South London, I feel completely connected to the people around me, and that informs and shapes my work. 

 And ultimately to create something, somewhere, nice.