I am a multimedia artist working across photography, moving image, performance. My projects and curation, combine rigorous research with interdisciplinary experimental practises. Specialisms include experimental film, portraiture, dance performance, installation, and audio art. Recurring themes in my work include religious faith, nature, poetry, slow film, spatial practices, and experimental processes. I frequently collaborate in participatory projects and direct productions within social media and Zine prints. I also work as an assistant director and cinematographer. I belong to several Zine communities and self-publish graphic fine artwork.
I value belonging and developing diverse communities of creative practice and invite collaboration through zine projects, also contributing my photographic work to other zines. ‘TEARS zine’ asks a group of anonymous peers – their only identifying features are presented as close-ups of each person’s eye – reflecting on the last time each cried. The work is an empathetic reflection on the vulnerability of shared emotion.
My major project, Biblia Naturae, is a location-based experimental dance film with narration and musical composition, produced to accompany a theological poetry anthology. The work directs and explores the movement of three female dancers within a natural setting, seeking to link nature, spirituality and transcendence with religious iconography and compositions within Renaissance visual art.
I have curated and produced a series of works for social media platforms entitled ‘Literature in the Leaves’ featuring poetry readings recorded on location in local woodlands. The series included invited bi-lingual guest performances and creative writing works that mindfully reflect individual meditations on embodiment and nature.
Taking my practice forwards, I envision more site-responsive work that interrogates the constructed representation of landscape.
My Y2 project ‘Knitted Together’ focused on participatory art, craft practices and performance. I staged an intervention within the entrance of UCA to draw attention to the place of traditional crafts within perceived hierarchies of the arts, and open the gallery space to engage in this discourse with peers and members of the public.
My dissertation thesis is a focused exploration of “slow film”, exploring themes of spectatorship and embodiment in relation to physical spaces, citing the work of James Benning, Tacita Dean, Derek Jarman and Nam June Paik. My key theoretical sources include writings by Susan Sontag, John Cage and Siegfried Kracauer. I will be going on to study for a postgraduate degree programme of study, Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art.
https://www.isabellephoebe.com
BA (Hons) Film & Digital Art 
Evie Minker | Fine Art
