Isabella Kyriazis

Bachelor of Visual Arts
Sculpture

The Sublime Flowers, consist of three sculptural works, exploring my anxiety disorders in relation to the sense of the sublime. My body of work allows the audience to experience the looming and all-consuming fear of anxiety, by immersing them in a space where the artwork overwhelms the area. The sense of the sublime can be described as a paradox of fear and pleasure that emerges at the midpoint of terror and awe at the grandness and power of nature. It is its incomprehensibility that draws out such a strong and complex emotion in us.

The Sublime Flower, Cycles of Stagnancy and The Outline, invite the viewer to be immersed into a contradictory feeling, experiencing the fear and delight that known as the sense of the sublime.

The Sublime Flower, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, steel, enamel paint

The Sublime Flower, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, steel, enamel paint

Cycles of Stagnancy, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, enamel paint, agi pipe, water-pump

Cycles of Stagnancy, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, enamel paint, agi pipe, water-pump

The Outline, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, enamel paint

The Outline, 2024, Mixed-media, aluminium, enamel paint

Isabella Kyriazis deeply explores themes of grief, mental and physical health and the human experience through natural symbolism and abstraction.

Her art practice is used as a form of catharsis, and a means to process complex ideas. She creates vulnerable pieces inspired by personal experience and invites viewers to engage with tangible forms of loss, anxiety, fear and grief.

Isabella’s practice focuses in the sculptural and painting fields, employing materials such as clay, metal and fabric.