About

Ishbel Angus is an artist currently based in London doing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, supported by The President and Vice-Chancellor’s UK Cost of Living Scholarship. Ishbel recently graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a First Class BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking.

Ishbel’s current work explores queerness and gender through an autobiographical feminist lens, using painting as a means to define the undefined. Engaging with themes of mysticism, sci-fi and queer theory, she investigates the tension between the known and unknown, subverting traditions to explore liberation, performativity, identity, and transformation. Playfulness is central to Ishbel’s process, especially in material exploration, where they balance darker themes with levity. Through manipulation of different visual languages, Ishbel aims to create illusions and hyperrealities that challenge boundaries of surfaces and identities, ultimately reflecting the complexities of queerness, trauma, and the act of self-definition.