Isobel Atacus
Guest Artist July 2025
Exhibition Opening 17 July
Isobel Atacus is an artist living and working in London (UK). Her practice incorporates sculpture, text and performance, through which she questions the fleeting and ambiguous nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm. Playfully re-directing and re-describing the streams of information that come at us from all sides, Atacus creates scenarios and encounters where rules are wilfully misapplied. Her curatorial work, teaching and pedagogy frequently take collaborative form, and she has just completed a practice-based PhD between King’s College London and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Alongside her individual practice she directs the icing room artist run space.
Instagram: @isobelatacus
Undercover Reach
solo exhibition by Isobel Atacus
17-20 July, 2025
"Approaching ___ as a sculptural object I’m trying to investigate, I’m confronted again and again by the limits of my reach. If I can touch it, I can have a sense of it, yet sometimes all I can do is _______ I cannot grasp its form, pulsating [or rather ___], my fingers touch the air. Bodies of people, animals, buildings, feelings, experiences, the pigeon I rescued from the lake. The weather, my mood... If I crouch down and tuck my fingers under it, if I stand up to measure its upper edge. If I stretch my arms above my head, if I lie horizontally and look at it that way…"
