Isabella Streffen is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East
Isabella Streffen works across media to examine and respond to fundamental problems of politics, perception, technology and narrative. She has a particular fascination with and feeling for contested sites, performing a kind of intellectual fieldwork that engages with the conditions of a particular culture, place and world-view to throw light on their origins and consequences.
Qualifications and training
- 2012 PhD "I Spy With My Military Eye: strategies of military vision and their use in fine art practice", Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Residencies
- 2011 Summer Fellowship, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny, France
- 2010 Artist in residence, The Library of Congress, Kluge Center, Washington DC
- 2009 Artist in residence, World Heritage Site, Hadrian's Wall, sites across Northumberland and Cumbria
Other
- 2012 Hawk & Dove installation, 5x5 public art festival, Washington DC
- 2011 The Proposition, How Do We Look?, MOCA, Los Angeles
- 2010 Illuminating Hadrian's Wall, Hadrian's Wall, sites from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway
Artist's website
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