Isabella Morales Salis

05/06/2026

I got the scholarship to study MA Contemporary Arts at the Royal College of Arts in London! Not too long ago I was accepted in Arts & Humanities but decided to apply again to CAP, and for my surprise was also accepted! And NOW I just got the scholarship!!! I am screaming inside ❤️ of happiness.

Life is good.

03/06/2026

Thank you for everyone that came to the group exhibition I was part of, Theatre of Fated Dreams, at OXO Gallery.

I had such a great time and I was so impressed with so much really good art, conversations and community.

Thank you and for curating it!

18/05/2026

This painting began with a question I keep returning to: what actually separates us from other animals, from each other, from the land we come from? I was thinking about ancient societies that did not draw the same lines we draw now, between human and animal, between the sacred and the everyday, between self and nature. Those ways of relating feel truer to me than what we have now. I was also moving through my own q***rness at the time, and finding that nature itself is q***r, that it has never been fixed or binary, that it shifts and merges and refuses category the way the figures in my painting do. Jung was present too, the idea that we use myth and imagination not to escape reality but to make sense of it, and that the parts of ourselves we don’t yet understand often speak through image before they speak through words. This work tries to hold all of that without resolving it.

We Are All Connected, 2025

Soon showing in an exhibition I will post about it.

oil on canvas, 80 x 115 cm
price on request

🔗 portfolio in bio

17/05/2026

Invitation to you and your friends, mark it in your calendar! 👀

THEATRE OF FATED DREAMS
📍 Oxo Gallery, London
🗓️ 28 May from 6 to 9pm.
Free to attend 🌟
The show runs until the 31st of May, 2026.

Spaces like this matter. Emerging artists exhibitions are some of the places where people can create community, where people find each other and mostly, where London’s creative scene stays alive beyond the commercial.

I’d love to see you there 🐊

Artists:
Abi Ola, Aramatou Toure, Amany Jarboua, Isabella Morales Salis, James Chen-Wishart, Jay Morally, Latifah A, Mai Aboassi, Manuel Hechavarria Zaldivar, Rasha Obaid, Ruby Khan, S.Riley, Thomas Soyemi, Yulin Huang.

02/05/2026

Some people think painting and making art is separate from other things, but for me, in fact, is all connected. I notice and connect to little things, I write about it with my not so good English, inside my pocket journal. I trust time, especially when I sit on top of grass. I was for a week, when I was spending time with my family in Uruguay, best friend’s with a green parakeet. Sometimes I’m confused if wonder is love or is part of love. I think they need to be from the same realm.

The investigation of “eu” (meaning myself in Portuguese) is a never ending side quest. I might have become addicted to different perspectives of seeing, that I feel almost like… a bird.

23/04/2026

IMAGINÁRIO COLETIVO

84 x 60 cm, acrylic paint and oil sticks on paper.

This work begins in childhood in Brazil, where memory returns less as story than as image, sensation, and association. Like Brasil, it moves through a space where inner life and symbolic form meet. The crocodile is connected to my memory of growing up on a place near wildlife, where I saw large lizards and to me they felt like caimans.
They carried something mysterious, dangerous, powerful, and ancient. Do not mess with them. I like that.
The painting gathers fragments: animals, plants, water, fire, a threshold, into a small world where magical connections can appear. In that space, childhood memory, South American visual culture, and imagination stay alive without becoming fixed. Identity is not fixed.

21/04/2026

18/04/2026

Just felt like a model in my last exhibition for the first time

04/04/2026

Me and my creature, or the creature and me

On view until 05/april/2026 at

03/04/2026

Thank you people that came to our private view of our exhibition Grammar of Animacy!

This was a self funded event, two artists that have a friendship and ways of seeing the world that are very similar, culminating in pieces of work that explore wonder and much more.

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