The work: Isobel Fiechtner, Pigmented Reality, 2021. Pastel drawing, 38 x 56cm. Courtesy: the artist
Graduating in 2018 from Griffith University, Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Isobel Fiechtner has spent the last four years refining her practice into a celebration of the human form. Deconstructing her figures into folded, magnified studies of skin and flesh, Fiechtner challenges the boundaries of how we view the human body. “This narrative of flesh,” she says, “presents the subject with no complications, no detailed features, allowing the eyes to view it in its simplest, most fragile form, creating a tension that doesn’t allow distraction from the unavoidable nakedness of the figures.”
