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WHAT WE SAY

Isabel’s practice is informed by a nuanced and critical engagement with identity politics, and translates our contemporary society into animations that imagine alternate possibilities. Working fluently between digital animation, printmaking, drawing and manipulated image, her experimental approach has defined a distinct style across an exciting body of work. Barfod’s commission from LUX Scotland will see her develop a major new work, which will tour throughout Scotland alongside a solo exhibition at LUX’s space in London.

BIO

Isabel Barfod is an animator and illustrator based in Glasgow who works across digital, hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation. In her practice, she seeks to draw out the ‘hard-to-describe’ micro/experiences, feelings and phenomena associated with moving between private and public space as a Black Queer person. In March, Isabel was announced as the recipient of the 2023 Margaret Tait Commission. With this £20,000 funding award from LUX Scotland, Isabel will be building on the themes explored through her FLAMIN Animations commission to consider the relation between Blackness, water, swimming and public swimming pools.