Isabelle Zetterström

English-Swedish artist (b. 1995), based in London, UK.

Zetterström’s ethereal ouvre spans painting, ceramics, works on paper and performance, portals gaze into imagined micro- and macrocosmic worlds—plucking sculptural artefacts from within them. Her oil and mixed-media paintings orchestrate a dance between abstraction and pictorial space, where otherworldly landscapes of shimmering textures audibly pulsate with biomorphic life, evoking the sublime. Bridging the eerily familiar with the untethered, she explores themes of identity, movement, and interconnectedness—how the self exists within the collective and how microscopic structures mirror the vastness of the universe.

Traces of past lives linger within highly layered surfaces, embedded with emotional resonance, where tension arises between raw, explosive gestures and meditative detail. She dances around the canvas, rotating it, placing it on the floor, and working from multiple perspectives to disrupt its evolution and create a sense of weightlessness. As viewers orbit the work, shifting iridescence echoes an ethereal transience.

Zetterström transforms paint into a sensory embodiment of abstract cosmologies, finding herself reflected in the lustre of a mystical mirage.