Isaac Moss

Isaac Moss is an artist based in Berlin. A graduate as of June 2018, Isaac studied ‘Fine Arts’ specialising in painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. Isaac’s practice explores the relationship between image and language, predominantly using the mediums of painting and printmaking.-----------------------------------------------------------------


My practice is an exploration of the relationship between image and Language. By divorcing both from their assigned values and conflating them, my work posits that text and image are arbitrary. The work sits between mediums, neither print nor painting. This has allowed me to explore the tensions between language and image from both a conceptual and material standpoint.---------------------------------------------

Historically, painting has been responsible for the creation of imagery and printing for the dissemination of text. Utilising this relationship, my work does no more than aim to reinstate the ambiguous nature of both. Between familiarity and illegibility, my practice is about arbitrariness. Language is considered and explored as visual material, and imagery is formatted and distorted, finding itself in the midst of a blurred distinction. Recognisable but displaced.

Edinburgh College of Art
BA. Honours Painting
First Class
2015-2018

2018-
Edinburgh College of Arts Degree Show 2018. 2-11th June. Edinburgh.
Astaire Art Prize, Shortlist Exhibition. 2-6th April. FireStation. Edinburgh.

2017-
Bust A Gut. 11th December. Just guts collective. Edinburgh College of Art.
Every Child. 6-12th March. West Barns Studios, Dunbar
Splash of Colour. 3rd February. Balmoral Hotel. Edinburgh.

2016-
TAROT. 6th December. Edinburgh College of Art.
Rubble n Trouble PopUp Exhibition. 30th May. Palazzo Pitti. Brandenburg, Germany.
Leave No Trace. 12-20th March. Tent Gallery. Edinburgh.

2015-
Totnes art and design foundation final show. 22-27th June. KENNICOT. Devon.
Wallis and Moss Artwork. 9-21st January. The Ariel Centre, Devon.