Isabelle de Kleine
Artist's Statement
Isabelle de Kleine is a mixed media painter based in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. Her artworks explore the multifaceted nature of self and the complexities, subjectivity and contradictions of identity and the psyche expressed through figure, colour, movement, texture and shape. Her works are visualised through photography and technological experimentation and realised through a combination of water based paint on paper to create collage-like artworks that move between realism and abstraction.
Biography
Isabelle de Kleine (b. 1994) completed her bachelor of Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2016 with distinction and was awarded the Tolarno Hotel Painting Prize at her graduate exhibition. Following, she was a joint winner of the Digital Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery (2015) in Canberra and was awarded the Arkley Prize at the Not Fair Art Fair (2016), participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Australia and has exhibited at Sydney Contemporary art fair (2019, 2020 and 2023). Her work has been televised on ABC News and profiled in publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Hunter & Folk.
