Ise Sharp
About
Ise Sharp is a Jamaican-American artist whose transnational heritage and philosophical engagements in non-duality inform a painting practice rooted in inquiry, presence, and transformation. Working with organic materials like charcoaled bone, fruit seeds, chalk, mica, and marble dust, she creates monochromatic works that act as living vessels—spaces for attunement between the physical and metaphysical, the personal and cosmic.
Her visual language draws from ancestral wisdom, global art histories, and natural cyclicity, exploring themes of impermanence, interconnectedness, and the unseen. Exploring pareidolia and the notion of a postmodern still life, each work is approached as a ritual space. She reflects matter in flux, in a process where painting becomes a task in sensing rather than depicting, and meaning emerges through relationship rather than representation.
Ise holds a bachelor’s degree in Art from Pomona College (USA) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited internationally, including the Biennial of Macau, China in 2021.
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