EXPLORE: Isabella Kirkland

Note to Teachers:
Content is suitable for all ages. Please scan all material to determine whether it is appropriate for your students.

"I want the images I build of select, representative species to stand witness to their own loss…..just as Guernica stood witness to a political massacre, and the painting, The Raft of the Medusa, bore witness to the sinking of a naval vessel. Using old methods I hope to make a meaningful set of iconic images that record, identify, represent, and bear witness to the fate of individual species."

- isabellakirkland.com October 2017

Isabella Kirkland Egg Cases of the Nudibranches

About

Isabella Kirkland is an artist and an associate at the California Academy of Sciences who archives extinct, endangered, and new species. She uses methods from European still life painters, 18th and 19th century naturalists, and scientific illustration to explore the shifting states of permanence and impermanence in our world. Inspired by the belief that objects can be imbued with power, she transfers her meticulously researched observations of specimens into an imaginary bricolage that conjure hope and survival of the earth and all of its species.

Artist Website

https://www.isabellakirkland.com/

Social Media

Instagram: #isabellakirkland

Artist Talks, Reviews, and Articles